The Barkley Marathons

Information and resources related to the Barkley Marathons. Race updates are at #BM100.

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE
Events with Laz, book signings, talks, giveaways - The Endurance Artist is on the road this fall.

LINK: https://t.co/kbJDM1XWsU

[Young Hearts Run Free Podcast 🎧 @yhrfpod]

In this unique and inspiring episode, we sit down with @BishopNewcastle to explore the profound and often surprising links between the physical discipline of running and the spiritual practice of faith. It's a belter, enjoy...
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[David Miller @dav1dmiller]

For all you Barkley enthusiasts. DO NOT BLOCK GATE now has a home at the Frozen Head State Park Visitor Centre. People travel from all over the world to see the gate and explore the park so it only felt right to provide a copy for the visitors to see! Work is being done in the background to stock the book here in the future!

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@keithdunn

#bm100 #barkleymarathons

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

Some candid shots from this year's #bm100.

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

Wrote this piece about the challenges of Frozen Head and the Barkley for @guardian #bm100 https://t.co/71sPeVhrgl

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

📚Book Announcement📚
Back at the Barkley firepit this year – and thrilled to announce THE ENDURANCE ARTIST is now available for pre-order! This rare look into Lazarus Lake will be published by 80/20 and distributed by Simon & Schuster. #BM100🔗https://t.co/ceKUubrZWS

It began with a question—one that ran through Laz’s life, his races, and my encounters with him: “What makes you quit?” And what started as a simple biography morphed into something else altogether.

There’s hard, insanely hard, then there’s Laz’s creations. He’s been called everything from a hillbilly genius to an evil mastermind to “the Willy Wonka of the Woods.” Through jeerleaders, taunts, and non-standardized (often unknown) distances – Laz questions whether our obsession with fairness ultimately limits our potential.

His Barkley Marathons is widely regarded as the most difficult and ingenious ultramarathon ever devised. Set in the thorny wilds of Tennessee, runners hunt for hidden books in hills, hells, and hollers. In 38 years, only 20 runners have reached the finish line. His Backyard Ultras upend our notions of winning and losing—a race with no finish line, where “speed kills” and the best finish last.

The Endurance Artist offers the reader a ringside seat to these crucibles and punches through the gore to expose a surprising humanity beneath. Along the way, an unflinching portrait of Lazarus Lake emerges – an aimless hippie-turned hospital orderly-turned accountant, who took a simple idea – that failure has to hurt – and made it into an art form.

"I was captivated. The suffering, striving, and dreaming of the ultra-community is right there smack up against the unanswerable yet irresistible question: Why does anyone do this? So many insights into Laz and his legacy, while never losing track of the basic mystery of the man." —Tom Foreman, Emmy-award-winning journalist at CNN

"Beasley finally delivers the tale so many of us have waited to read, a book as rambunctious, bloody and—yes, beautiful—as its subjects. If you're a runner—you'll devour it. If you're not a runner—you'll devour it. " —Chris Solomon, Contributing editor at Outside magazine

“Whether you run or not, you will love reading about the quirky, brilliant, hillbilly genius of Lazarus Lake who, like Bob Dylan, isn’t afraid to experiment. He doesn’t care about expectations or what others think of him. The Endurance Artist will... leave you simultaneously laughing and cringing as you meet a cast of characters as exceptional as they come.”
—Marshall Ulrich, best-selling author of Running on Empty and Both Feet on the Ground. Endurance athlete, speaker, and Route 66 UltraRun race director.

📢I'll be covering this year's Barkley for The Guardian. Stay tuned!
#TheEnduranceArtist #lazbook #ultrarunning

[The Barkley Marathons @TheBarkley100]

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[The Barkley Marathons @TheBarkley100]

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[UltraRunningHistory @UltraRunningHis]

Gary Cantrell (a.k.a. Lazarus Lake), of Tennessee, has been inducted into the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame as its 24th member. He has made a tremendous impact on the sport both in America and world-wide as a race director. https://t.co/QxkESuOR8r
#bm100 @keithdunn

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

"How did Gary Cantrell, the skinny bookworm, who’d been to 10 different schools by his sophomore year become Laz Lake the iconic race creator?" https://t.co/N8HY4qoMl1

[John Kelly @RndmForestRunnr]

A thread of a dozenish closing thoughts on #BM100: some random, some replies to questions, and some in response to things other people pointed me to.

[INOV8 @inov_8]

Barkley Marathons wins again!

Check out our A-Z 👉 https://t.co/EuQxunyTg5

#BM100 #barkleymarathons

[INOV8 @inov_8]

Ultra runner @JasminKParis has described her first Barkley Marathons experience as “Type 2 Fun!”

She added: “My goal was to give it absolutely everything I had, and I feel I did that, so I’m happy.”

Read more from Jasmin 👉 https://t.co/O6HHgQSEXm

#BM100 #barkleymarathons

[Volume @voldotco]

Today we launched our latest title, a stunning photographic record of the superhuman finishers of the Barkley Marathons ultrarunning race. Help us make it happen here: https://t.co/djjHcbBZO6

[LV @LaurenVassallo]

@keithdunn Shameless plus when we got @RndmForestRunnr on @SportsCenter the year he completed it!

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[Territorio Trail Media @TerritorioTrail]

Les Finisseurs. La Barkley Marathons desde la óptica de Alexis Berg | Alexis Berg, junto a Aurélien Delfosse, reúne a los 15 finishers de Barkley en un libro de gran formato que verá la luz en noviembre bajo el título de "Les Finisseurs".
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@BergGrand

[Mr Miller @MrMillerabc]

During this episode we talk about the @BarkleyMarathon. And how can you talk about The Barkley without mentioning @gary_robbins?
@timbrog has now caught up with #WhereDreamsGoToDie, no doubt we'll be chatting about it in Episode 6 #thebarkleymarathon #ultrarunning @keithdunn

[The Barkley Marathons @TheBarkley100]

@eduardorfontes Cancelled.

[The Barkley Marathons @TheBarkley100]

The 2020 Barkley Marathons has been cancelled. #BM100