Ultimately, it wasn’t in the cards for Hamilton, who did not complete loop four in under 48 hours (the rule for being allowed to attempt loop five). He created this insane marathon after James Earl Ray escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in 1977 and hiked 8 miles through the woods. Created by Gary Cantrell, who goes by Lazarus Lake. ![]() ![]() Hamilton was moving well, but he had time to make up, arriving in camp after loop three almost three hours behind Sabbe. This interactive map takes you through the history and course of the amazing and extremely difficult race that is the Barkley Marathon. Hamilton, an orienteering expert, ran the early two loops with Big’s Backyard Ultra stars Courtney Dauwalter and Harvey Lewis, before going ahead of them at the end of the second loop (where Dauwalter and Lewis dropped after failing to find the seventh book). The local sheriff pulled Sabbe aside, escorting him back to camp, where his 2022 Barkleys attempt sadly came to an end. Reason being, there has been an excellent documentary on it, The Barkley Marathon: The Race That Eats Its Young, and many long form articles written about it, including one recently in Runner’s World. The fourth loop in the dark did him no favours, as he was found off-course in another town, chatting with a garbage can who he thought was a person (he’d been running for 40-plus hours at this point). Even if you are not an ultrarunner, you may have heard of the Barkley Marathons. ![]() ![]() Sabbe was making good time, finishing three loops in just over 32 hours. Barkley Marathons seems to be starting today, so I figured I’d start a thread discussion the event. The 2022 Barkley Marathons has come to an end after the last two competitors, Karel Sabbe and Greig Hamilton, bowed out on their fourth loop of the 20-plus mile course.
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