Karel Sabbe getting a ride back to camp in a police cruiser after bowing out of the 2022 Barkley on his fourth loop. In his last two attempts in 20, Campbell completed a fun run (2021) and dropped out due to injury (2019).
He is the most experienced Barkley runner in the field at Frozen Head, finishing the race three times (2012, 20) in six attempts. Last year, Paris became the first woman in nine years to complete a “Fun Run” of three loops.Īfter a year away from the race in 2022, Jared Campbell of Salt Lake City, Utah, returns for his seventh Barkley. The race has never had a female finisher, but race director Laz Lakesaid prior to Jasmin Paris’s debut in 2022 that he believes she has the potential to become the first woman to complete five loops. (The Spine Race is a 268-mile ultra in England and Scotland’s Pennine Mountains, held in winter.) There are several big names in ultra trail running at this year’s race, including former Spine Race champions Kelly, Paris, and Ireland’s Eoin Keith, all of whom have raced the Barkley at least once previously. Photo: Alexis Berg Will we finally see a finisher in 2023? ( Note: this story has been updated.) Lake lights his cigarette to start the Barkley Marathons.
There have been no finishers since England’s John Kelly in 2017 Kelly returns for his sixth start at the Barkley Marathons. The race in Frozen Head State Park, near Wartburg, Tenn., is considered one of the world’s hardest ultras, in which a small field of runners are given 60 hours to complete five 20-mile loops through steep and unforgiving terrain while using their orienteering skills to navigate the unmarked course. on Tuesday, signifying that the 2023 Barkley Marathons would start in one hour.
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