March 23, 20241 yr 17 humans had ever finished it since 1989. The final 20+ mile loop usually starts about 48 hours in, complete by hour 60. First out on final lap picks clockwise or ccw. They go alone, into the pre-dawn darkness. Alternating clockwise and ccw, so they can't just follow each other. First person out choose cw, so #2 was ccw, #3 cw, #4 ccw. Clockwise is considered mildly better. Jared and Jasmin (who became the only woman to complete 4 loops minutes before) came in about the same time. They are both taking a rest, on the clock. So, next runner gets to go clockwise. Jared has finished multiple times before, one of the very few to have done so. See at about min 3: Final 3 mins of 60 hour race: fwiw the 2012 documentary is free online.
March 27, 20241 yr Author https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a46888033/conquering-the-barkley-marathons/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68643341 this write up os the best: https://ultrarunning.com/featured/barkley-2024-a-bit-traumatic-and-wonderful/
March 27, 20241 yr Jasmin finishing Barkley is arguably the single greatest running accomplishment of the past decade. And that ultrarunning piece is fantastic.
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