Barkley Marathon. The French devoured, and the favorite perished. sports
The Barkley Marathon hungry this year. After just over twenty-four hours of racing, about thirty runners have already been crushed on the Frozen Head Park course.
Tuesday morning began in the sunshine, just after 8 a.m. (time for Tennesseei.e. 3 pm in France), The event organized by Lake Lazarus The forty contestants who took their places behind the famous yellow barrier were spared.
Although most favorites managed to complete the first loop by about 20 miles (32 kilometers) in less than ten hours, they had to deal with suddenly unfavorable weather. Rain and storms made their advance difficult, especially at the peaks where the thermometer sometimes showed negative temperatures.
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15th-placed John Kelly appears to be enjoying his return to Frozen Head. He is the leader of Barkley with Belgian Karel Sapp # bm100 #Lord_love pic.twitter.com/BoAdKz4A8O
– Alexis Berg (@Bergalx) March 9, 2022
Belgian Karel Sapp and American John Kelly (the last rider to beat Barkley in 2017) soon dominated. The first lap was erased at 8h07’50, ten minutes before Courtney Doalter, twenty minutes before Harvey Lewis and New Zealand steelmaker Greg Hamilton. Scotland’s Jasmine Paris and Britain’s Paul Giblin finished with a time of 9 hours 24 minutes 9 hours and 27 minutes, fifteen minutes before the match. French Guillaume Calmettes.
After about ten minutes everyone left, having had their provisions and a change of clothes, while the daylight was dwindling.
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As the hours passed, hopes of Barkley finishing in less than 60 hours dwindled to the other participants. Frenchman Remy Gard only completed the first lap at 11h39’08 and only left for the next lap after a 36-minute break.
At the end of 1:20 PM (time limit to complete the first episode), the three colors are used Alexander Recode He had not yet joined the base camp, and therefore was eliminated along with dozens of other participants. Two hours later, Geghard, exhausted, decided to throw in the towel.
After cutting nearly 30 miles, Courtney Doalter (last year’s Western States winner and UTMB winner) and Harvey Lewis (Badwater 135 champion) have suspended the charges.
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Overnight massacre in #BM100. Courtney Dowalter Tweet embed And Harvey Lewis Tweet embed They had dropped out at 29.5 miles; With the other drops, there were only 13 runners left in Episode 2. And no runners were left in Episode 1.#BM100
—Keith (@keithdunn) March 9, 2022
Meanwhile, the leaders did not slow down. John Kelly finished the second episode at 19:34:01, followed by Karel Sapp at 19:34:11 and Greg Hamilton at 20:26:03. Yasmine Paris completed the second lap at 23:38 and left 15 minutes later for her third round.
At the same time, Paul Giblin preferred to surrender, while Guillaume Calmitis, very unlucky, was forced to leave the race a victim of the weather: the pages of the books he had recovered on the course were blown out! So he couldn’t get to check out the second episode!
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Guillaume, by the way, had to fall when the wind blew one of the pages of the book out of its case. The loop can’t be finished without all of your pages. Barclay is tough. #BM100
—Keith (@keithdunn) March 9, 2022
This Wednesday, after 30 hours of racing (halfway), there are only five contenders left to add their names to the very closed circuit. Finishes : John Kelly, Karel Sapp, Greg Hamilton, Jasmine Paris and Thomas Dunkerbeek.
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