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Everything about the Barkley is designed to be difficult, from the application process to the course itself:

The race was born from a mockery. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from the nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Despite being on the run for 55 hours, he managed to cover only eight miles before being captured. Hearing this, Lazarus Lake reportedly joked that he could do at least 100 miles in that time. Thus, a "cult-like" tradition was born. subtitle The.Barkley.Marathons.The.Race.That.Ea...

In the documentary The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young , directors Annika Iltis and Timothy Kane pull back the curtain on this secretive event. In its first 25 years of existence, only 10 people managed to finish. The Absurd Logistics Everything about the Barkley is designed to be