![]() In reality the loops are more like 26-miles long meaning that anybody who completes all five will have covered 130 miles. The Barkley Marathons is made up of five 20-mile loops with more than 54,000 feet of ascent, each loop starts and finishes at the yellow gate where competitors and support teams make camp. If successful, you will receive a ‘letter of condolence’. Your application must include an essay detailing why you feel you should be allowed to race. You first need to find out when and where to send applications from a previous competitor. At the time of writing, runners still have about nineteen hours to complete the 160 kilometers.The race is restricted to just 40 entries and the first challenge is to be considered. For each loop, participants have 12 hours to complete the lap otherwise, they are eliminated from the race. Among the seven runners still in the race is Jasmin Paris, the second woman ever to start the fourth loop at all.įor the past seven years, no one has crossed the finish line of the Barkley Marathons: five 32-kilometer loops – 160 kilometers in total – through inhospitable terrain and with a basically countless amount of elevation gain. ![]() This year the participants are lucky with good conditions: it is cold, but sunny. This year’s Barkley Marathons looks set to be a very special edition: no fewer than seven runners have started the fourth of five loops, making more runners than ever in the race to cross the coveted finish line after 160 kilometers.Ĭompleting three loops, in which the seven runners thus succeeded, is known as completing the “Fun Run” and thus already constitutes a first goal in itself.
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