Ultimately, it wasn’t in the cards for Hamilton, who did not complete loop four in under 48 hours (the rule for being allowed to attempt loop five). Hamilton was moving well, but he had time to make up, arriving in camp after loop three almost three hours behind Sabbe. Hamilton, an orienteering expert, ran the early two loops with Big’s Backyard Ultra stars Courtney Dauwalter and Harvey Lewis, before going ahead of them at the end of the second loop (where Dauwalter and Lewis dropped after failing to find the seventh book). The local sheriff pulled Sabbe aside, escorting him back to camp, where his 2022 Barkleys attempt sadly came to an end. The fourth loop in the dark did him no favours, as he was found off-course in another town, chatting with a garbage can who he thought was a person (he’d been running for 40-plus hours at this point). Sabbe was making good time, finishing three loops in just over 32 hours. The current record time is 52:03:08 which was set by Brett Maune in 2012. More details on the event can be found in our race explainer.The 2022 Barkley Marathons has come to an end after the last two competitors, Karel Sabbe and Greig Hamilton, bowed out on their fourth loop of the 20-plus mile course. The test is made even more difficult by the fact that each competitor has to find books hidden around the course and tear out the page corresponding to their race number. It achieved legendary status following the 2014 Netflix documentary Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young. That is five 20-mile loops with more than 54,000 feet of ascent, each loop starting and finishing at the yellow gate where competitors and support teams make camp. We also have Keith Dunn, master of Barkley Twitter, the only link between the race organisation and the outside world, chatting with Will about how he came to be such a. The Barkley Marathons is regarded as one of the toughest races in the world and since 1986 only 15 different runners have managed to complete the full course. Jasmin Paris put in the best performance by any female athlete in the history of the race, and Damian Hall managed to get all the way out onto loop 4 in his first-ever Barkley.
#BM100 - Keith MaWhat is the Barkley Marathons? John Kelly decided not to continue to loop 4 and tapped himself out.
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