A Barker wrote:
Anyone with an attitude like #16 here has NO chance of ever finishing. Big egos tend to exit early.
Anything less than 5 loops completed in less than 60 hours is exiting early at Barkley. So you're saying you have a big ego? ;)
A Barker wrote:
Anyone with an attitude like #16 here has NO chance of ever finishing. Big egos tend to exit early.
Anything less than 5 loops completed in less than 60 hours is exiting early at Barkley. So you're saying you have a big ego? ;)
#16 - How many times do you plan on pooping while out there and what are the logistics involved? Do you carry toilet paper and/or wet wipes? Just use leaves?
Barkley Finisher #16 wrote:
A Barker wrote:
Anyone with an attitude like #16 here has NO chance of ever finishing. Big egos tend to exit early.
Anything less than 5 loops completed in less than 60 hours is exiting early at Barkley. So you're saying you have a big ego? ;)
Your logic is flawed.
big ego causes exit early
exit early is not necessarily caused by big ego
Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: "after this, therefore because of this") is a logical fallacy that states "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is often shortened simply to post hoc fallacy.
Everybody Poops wrote:
#16 - How many times do you plan on pooping while out there and what are the logistics involved? Do you carry toilet paper and/or wet wipes? Just use leaves?
It's Barkley. What I normally do is use my hand and tell people it's mud. Given you look like crap when you make it back to camp, no one questions it.
Why is it called "marathons" when the loops are not marathon distance, and the total distance is not a multiple of the marathon distance?
How is my logic flawed?
If you don't complete 5 loops in less than 60 hours, you have exited early ;)
Stop trying to one up me because you have failed at Barkley when I have not!
How many years has it been since you last ate meat? How do you deal with chafing? What do you think about while you are running? How many boyfriends do you have?
why "marathons"? wrote:
Why is it called "marathons" when the loops are not marathon distance, and the total distance is not a multiple of the marathon distance?
Because that's what Laz wanted to call it...or, as he has said:"Runners may interpret the name however they wish"
heavyd84 wrote:
How many years has it been since you last ate meat? How do you deal with chafing? What do you think about while you are running? How many boyfriends do you have?
1. I am not a vegetarian
2. For chafing, at Barkley, I use mud a lot. There is a place right after Rat Jaw that I am fond of. Good mud...Smooth. Many parts is too grainy/leafy. Not good if you know what I mean.
3. I don't think. If I did, I wouldn't have applied, shown up and been "out there"
4. I'm a married male...my wife thinks this is nuts. Maybe you meant that for Karl Hungus?
Seems like staying on the delineated course is a problem. Is the course the same every year or does it vary?
If the course is primarily the same from year to year, isn't it getting easier to follow the route? (like Hardrock is easier than it once was as the route is becoming more and more visible due to repeated use).
Is there any drug testing? Or is it just assumed everyone who enters is trippin on something.
Does Laz sleep at all during the event?
Barkley Finisher #16 wrote:
How is my logic flawed?
If you don't complete 5 loops in less than 60 hours, you have exited early ;)
Stop trying to one up me because you have failed at Barkley when I have not!
You sir have not lived.
race is relative wrote:
Seems like staying on the delineated course is a problem. Is the course the same every year or does it vary?
If the course is primarily the same from year to year, isn't it getting easier to follow the route? (like Hardrock is easier than it once was as the route is becoming more and more visible due to repeated use).
Is there any drug testing? Or is it just assumed everyone who enters is trippin on something.
Does Laz sleep at all during the event?
1. Slight differences every year
2. Not easy at all. Most of the trails are completely unmarked (ie don't expect even streamers or a path). This is the Tennessee backcountry, after all. Trees, mud, leaves are the name of the game. Helps destroy any evidence a footrace was even held there. Limiting to 40 people also helps.
3. No drug testing
4. Laz catches a few zzzz's here and there
I am going to beat you next year. You will be # 17.
The REAL Barkley Finisher #16 wrote:
I am going to beat you next year. You will be # 17.
In the words of The Rock
"Don't sing it, just bring it"
In the words of Ric Flair
"To be the man, you gotta beat the man...and right now, I'm the man! Woooooooo!"
My thread has made it to the front page, featured in the "On the Boards" section.
I've made it. Between finishing Barkley and being featured on LetsRun, I'm not sure which is the more impressive accomplishment.
I'd like to thank myself and myself only, for without me, none of this would be possible.
Kudos to OP for not giving up on this insanely stupid thread. Maybe the OP is tenacious enough to be Barkley material after all.
The only thing missing is Fake Laz.
Which event will get more media coverage in 2018: Barkley or the Boston Marathon? This is a serious question.
Johnny Manziel wrote:
Which event will get more media coverage in 2018: Barkley or the Boston Marathon? This is a serious question.
This isn't a serious question.
The Boston Marathon is the Super Bowl of marathon running in the US. As fringe of a sport as long distance running is, even ESPN will feature something about Boston, both online and TV.
"This isn't a serious question.
The Boston Marathon is the Super Bowl of marathon running in the US. As fringe of a sport as long distance running is, even ESPN will feature something about Boston, both online and TV."
John Kelly was interviewed on ESPN SportsCenter last year after he got five loops. I don't remember if the Boston Marathon winner got interviewed on SportsCenter, might have.
I hear the net elevation change is zero. How hard can it be?
If it was such a great race, why do women get bored and leave after two loops?
You said there were no trail markings. Not true. There is a pig head on a stick clearly showing the way up.
If it was such a great race why hasn't Kílian or Goggins done it?
How come raw chicken has not caught on with most of the Ultra crowd?
I understand there are two hotels on course: The Limacher Hilton, and upper Kelly camp. Which is best?