![]() ![]() ![]() The race opens out onto the mountains at multiple scales, multiple speeds, and along multiple vectors and in turn, these particular mountains are allowed to have their own specific, non-generic influence on the form and style of the event. Considered as a form of constraint-based endurance performance art (which it is admittedly not), the Barkley Marathons suggest a "found" approach to performance constraints: an approach that puts performance in a more direct and fine-grained relationship with the details (geological, topological, meteorological, botanical, human-historical, non-human-historical) of the world in which (and with which) the performance occurs. Its rules follow a unique set of constraints specific to the contours of the local topology, to the history of incarceration in the area, and to the idiosyncratic aesthetics and ethics of the race's two founders. It takes place in the rugged Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee, is approximately 130 miles long, and must be completed in under 60 hours. The event began on Tuesday, March 14, when about 40 intrepid runners headed out on the course to see if they could join the very exclusive finishers club. All runners must be off the course by 5:00 PM. The Barkley Marathons is an infamously brutal endurance trail race, having only been completed by 15 runners in its 30-year history. Race Morning: 7:30 AM 9:15 AM Time Limit: There is an 8.5 hour time limit for the 50K & 35K race. ![]()
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