Barkley Marathons doco on Netflix--worth a watch, and poses badass questions

Good movie

I watched it while injured and stuck on the elliptical. Made me want to run. But never, ever, in that event. That thing looks ridiculously tough.

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I watched it while injured and stuck on the elliptical. Made me want to run. But never, ever, in that event. That thing looks ridiculously tough.

Insane, really. When I watched it I thought about Salazar. He raged after college and tore it up. But then years and years later, in like his mid 30s dude won Commrades. For those who don't know, it's badass and over 50miles. He just entered and won it...Al had been silent as a runner for almost a decade.

We look at someone guys like Komen, Haile, Bekele, and think superhuman...but what Barkley showcases is beyond anything those guys ever could have done.

Great flic. Maybe some of us have some big miles left in there.

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Great flick wrote:

I watched it while injured and stuck on the elliptical. Made me want to run. But never, ever, in that event. That thing looks ridiculously tough.

Insane, really. When I watched it I thought about Salazar. He raged after college and tore it up. But then years and years later, in like his mid 30s dude won Commrades. For those who don't know, it's badass and over 50miles. He just entered and won it...Al had been silent as a runner for almost a decade.

We look at someone guys like Komen, Haile, Bekele, and think superhuman...but what Barkley showcases is beyond anything those guys ever could have done.

Great flic. Maybe some of us have some big miles left in there.

I don't think that Barkley is more than those guys could have done... I haven't watched the doc, but sounds like some VERY good runners have run it and that it is super tough and that the maze to make it through is ridiculous (and in my mind unnecessary). Good luck to any of you guys if you give it a shot. I love the trails but don't know about the ultra scene; people want to give their life meaning by doing something that is pretty difficult, but I think that a good college runner could crush most of them even on a 50 mile course.

Just watched it on Netflix. Not at all what I was expecting. I loved it and my wife who isn't into running at all also loved it.

The Barkley marathon involves lots of walking. The winner averages 35 minute miles.

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The Barkley marathon involves lots of walking. The winner averages 35 minute miles.

You're going to have to walk quite a bit when you consider it is estimated to be 130 miles long with over 60,000 ft of elevation.

The fastest ever time of 52 hours 3 minutes by Brett Maune averaged 24 min miles (if the doco guessed distance is correct).

55 hours of nonstop running, climbing, walking (with maybe 4 30min food rests in between the loops) is insane.