![]() Please Review and Rate the Fastest Known Podcast (this helps people find the show). Please show your support here ! (The Internet is not free your contribution keeps this real). You are burdened with almost no advertising on this website and podcast - we rely on YOU. "The job of a race director is to help people find greatness in themselves." Please support Fastest Known Time Laz is one of the most unique and insightful people we've ever had on the podcast. BM100 The Barkley Marathon (BarkleyMarathon) MaThough most participants made the cutoff time for the first loop a record of 30 runners that prediction quickly took a. "People don't stop when they can't keep going they stop when they think they can't win." A 100-mile footrace in the hilly woods of Eastern Tennessee. "I wonder if we stumbled on a whole new sport." I wonder if I'm going to wake up and it's not real." "This is like a fantasy, because I'm just an old hillbilly who lives in the woods. Who'd have imagined such a wild success? Not Laz: The original Bigs Backyard Ultra is still is held on his farm in Tennessee, where 35 people competed on October 16, but this year 25-30,000 runners will enter an official Backyard Ultra in 65 countries. That's 16 hour miles."īackyard Ultras are another Laz invention ("Just One More Loop") and will possibly be his most enduring legacy. "If you run off the map, the map doesn't help much anymore. He didn't find his way back until 32 hours later. Since 40 people are in each year, two finishers every five years is about right." It's designed so only 1% of entrants should be able to finish. They are someone who goes home and works to get better." ![]() This award-winning, oddly inspiring, and. "A 'Barker' isn't someone who says, "This isn't fair!" and goes home. A famous prison escape sparks the idea for a cult-like race that has seen only 10 finishers in its first 25 years. But not always clean, and not always fun." The Barkley Marathons is an iconic, world-renowned event, and the subject of two films, even though only 40 people enter, there is no website, and the time and even the date of the race is secret. That is a low bar, but possibly by accident he has single-handily changed ultrarunning forever. After a year off from Barkley having another 60ish hour race was not only incredibly valuable for. In 2017 I had TWOT 100, and Franklins this year served in much the same role but perhaps in an even larger way. Nearly 1/3 of my training time this year was spent at the Franklins 200 miler. Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, (or is it the other way around?) could be the most creative person in the entire sport. My training for 2019 Barkley from January up to the race.
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