Barkley Marathon is a very extreme, mysterious, ‘underground’ sort of event, that I had the priveledge of participating in\u00a0early this year in Tennessee(100 miles).\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about that event again lately. I maintain the mailing list\u00a0for the Race Director, and as\u00a0things are being prepared for next years events, my thoughts go back to that\u00a0crazy day .\u00a0 I\u00a0did write a race report, with photos and videos, but didn’t really let\u00a0very many people\u00a0know about it.\u00a0 In a sport(ultra running) that is already on the fringe of fringe sports, Barkley is over the cliff.\u00a0 When you decide to enter events that are essentially impossible to finish for almost everyone, (most years there are no finishers), they light a cigarette to start the event, and the race shirt says ‘Endless suffering without a point’, well,\u00a0let’s just say it doesn’t\u00a0bolster the argument to friends and family that you are a sane individual.\u00a0 That seems to get questioned more and more these days.<\/p>\n