Only 17 people have ever completed the race.
As if life wasn’t already painful enough, there are those select few of us who choose to run ultramarathons. And within that minority, there exists a group just hardcore enough to elect to run a self-navigated, sleepless course of between 100 and 130 mountainous miles with an elevation gain of roughly 63,000 feet in under 60 hours. The name for this road straight to hell? The Barkley Marathons, of course.
On Friday, three athletes—American John Kelly, Frenchman Aurélien Sanchez, and Belgian dentist Karel Sabbe—crossed the finish line within the time limit, marking only the second time in the race’s 36-year history that there were three finishers. Only 17 people have ever completed Barkley, founder Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell told CNN. There were no finishers in the last five years, and there has never been a woman finisher. But history was made earlier in the event on that front, with U.K.
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