![]() It has a lot of information that might come in handy in terms of preparednessĢ. If you are planning on attempting the "Barkley Marathons", this book is highly recommended:ġ. ![]() Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and his race, "The Barkley Marathons" create such a subject matter that even the most poorly written content seems interesting. While the writer did a poor job for most of the book(barring the route maps and calculations which he goes on to repeat 20 times in the course of the book), the subject matter of the book saves it. The last 2 chapters(2008, 2009) were written in a different tone than the rest of the of the book.īut somehow, in some weird way, this was a book full of good stories, albeit poorly told. The formatting was all off, the author forgot to do a spellcheck and it looked like he simply printed a huge MS Word file on to 215 pages and published it.Īnd even the content in itself was repetitive, like an engineering student trying to fill up his assignment with additional words. First two laps are clockwise the second two laps are counterclockwise and the fifth lap is runners choice, I want to run this race.I'll be frank, this was probably the worst written books I have ever read. The interesting part is every lap is unique because every lap will take place at a different time of day and going in a different direction. It's a loop race so it's five times around, for a total of 130 miles. ![]() I've been watching videos online for years about this marathon there's something about it that's just so exciting. In Two years I wanna join a marathon but not just any marathon the Barkley marathon. ![]() One of my many passions in life is trail running, I do it every spring till fall and as I get older I'm starting to think maybe I'm gonna start running some trail running marathons soon in the next few years, and I'm just gonna log it all here and maybe start a running club. ![]()
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