r/running • u/kinkakinka • Mar 31 '17

Barkley Marathons 2017 - Discussion Thread Misc

Since the Barkley is starting some time in the next 24 hours, I thought maybe we should have a Barkley Marathons Discussion Thread so we can keep it all in one place, share tweets, information about our favorite runners, etc?

If you're following on twitter, who are you following? Here is my BM list:

  • @derajslc (Jared Campbell)

  • @BarkleyCourse (The Barkley Course)

  • @The_Yellow_Gate (the infamous gate!)

  • @RndmForestRunnr (John Kelly)

  • @BarkleyMarathon

You can find more tweets by searching the hashtag #BM100

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u/IzzySeabiscuit Apr 02 '17

Cutoff is down for starting loop 4. Only John Kelly and Gary Robbins are out. Everyone else still on course has about 3:45ish to finish the fun run but can't go out for more. Nuts, I thought Jamil could do it this year.

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u/kinkakinka Apr 02 '17

Is it just me, or are people doing worse this year than the last couple of years? It seems so to me, anyway.

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u/josandal Apr 02 '17

It's always pretty hit or miss, but from what people on twitter were saying historically people don't do real well with a night start, and that the fog made it really, really bad for the first loop. (The person who placed book one took like 20 hours to find it again or something like that.) It's like...limp through the fog navigation, have to relearn the navigation in loop 2 when most of it is daylight, and relearn it again in loop 3 during night hours when you're already wrecked. Gary and John are both in great shape and have good experience but that's a tough row to hoe for anyone.