![]() ![]() Just don’t quit on yourself, right? Just don’t quit on a dream. My water bottles froze around 2am and it was a bit of a slog, but I stuck with it and got er done, and that’s all you can ever ask of yourself. I covered 29 miles and accumulated 21,000ft. I started at 9:30pm and for the next 11 hours I did repeats on our local Elk Mountain. For Barkley training, I did my final overnight session from Wednesday night into Thursday morning. I’m supposed to be out flagging a race course as I type this right now. For the first time in 9 years as a race director we’ve had to postpone an event. If I can make it to Tennessee, I definitely will, but we’ve already determined that this will likely be without my wife Linda, and will certainly be without my son Reed and my parents (the decision with Reed and my folks was made last week). Having missed almost two years due to injury, but continuing to train over 500 hours on the bike in 2019, seems to have done nothing but strengthened my body overall. Certainly it’s the best my legs have ever felt at this point in time. I have absolutely knocked my training block right out of the park, and surprisingly I feel like this might be the fittest I’ve ever been heading into the race. I have controlled all of the variables that I could. I know Laz is working overtime to attempt to keep the race alive this year, but I just do not see how US State Parks will still be operational come the scheduled race weekend. Barkley has already lost a large contingent of its field due to the European travel ban. Bigger issues at stake than a stupid race I guess, but frustrating and disappointing to say the least. Is it all for naught? It’s certainly trending that way currently. That year, he ended up reaching the finish line, but unbeknownst to him, he was actually coming at it from the wrong direction. Robbins, sporting an instantly recognizable red beard, has attempted the race on three previous occasions, perhaps most cruelly in 2017, when a wrong turn cost him dearly. Now, the man from Chilliwack, B.C., will have to wait to fulfill his dream. It’s not unusual that in some years none of the runners actually finish. ![]() In 60 hours, they try to complete a course of five loops spanning some 160 kilometres around Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee’s Crab Orchard Mountains. In Cantrell’s version - named after a neighbour of his, Barry Barkley - participants are on the clock. According to Runner’s World, Cantrell, on the other hand, felt he himself could have made it 100 miles in such harsh, mountainous terrain, and came up with the idea for his race. Some two days later, Ray was caught having made it about eight miles from the spot from where he fled. in Memphis in 1968, escaped in 1977 from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee’s Morgan County. Ray, the man who shot Martin Luther King Jr. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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