![]() Well thanks to Greater Rochester Track Club, Tim and John gave us a view behind the curtain. Tim has finished races like Arrowhead 135, Badwater, And Massanutten Mountain and yet was portrayed as 'the human sacrifice' in the movie. The full five-loop race has only been completed 18 times by 15 different runners. From left, Aurélien Sanchez, Karel Sabbe and John Kelly were the three who finished the 2023 Barkley Marathons. A short time later, John Kelly arrived at the finish in 58:42:23, becoming a two-time finisher and one of only three people to have finished the event more than once. John is one of the races only 15 finishers. After 60 hours of brutal racing at the 2023 Barkley Marathons, Aurélien Sanchez of France finished in 58 hours, 23 minutes, and 12 seconds in his first finish of the infamous event. Tim Hardy and John Fegyveresi both ran the race in 2012. In fact, 6 they have 6 attempts between the two of them! BARKLEY MARATHONS ALSO NOT FNISHERS IN ITS 20 Barkley Marathon departed with a good cast of USA runners, as international runners had no easy place in an edition conditioned even by COVID19. ![]() What you may not know is that we have two people from the Rochester Area that have run Barkley. And if you are a silly person, you might even be thinking that you DO want to run Barkley someday. All 3 are still on track for a finish, but for Sabbe it will be very tough Update 12: Aurlien Sanchez is the first finisher of today He is the 16th ever finisher of the Barkley Marathons 20 minutes after Sanchez, also John Kelly crossed the finish line and presents all his pages. ![]() You may have heard of a little Netflix documentary called "Barkley, the Race that eats its young" and if you are a trail or ultra runner, you may have even been asked if you ever ran or want to run Barkley.
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