1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Until this weekend, I'd 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: never heard of the Barkley Marathon race. And the more 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: I look at it, the harder and weirder it sounds. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: This is a race that is run in Tennessee every year, 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: and for the first time ever, a woman has won it. 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Her name is Jasmine Paris or so I not won 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: it completed it. Only thirty five people every year get 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: to compete, and it is a very strange kind of thing. 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: It's a sixty hour race. Wow, it's across the really 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: weird terrain it is. It changes. The course changes every year, 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: but it covers one hundred miles involving sixty thousand foot 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: feet of climb and descent twice the height of Mount Everest. 13 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: Imagine that only twenty people have ever made it to 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: the end of the race within the sixty hours. People 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: just attempt to go in it and just drop out. 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: It's quite extraordinary. So the race is famous. Explain in 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: a minute what you have to do in the race, 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: because it's not just running as fast as you can 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: over this weird terrain. There's other bits to it too. 20 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: But the history of this race is very interesting. The 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: Barclay Course was created by a guy called Gassy Gassy 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: Gary Lantrelle and his mate, actually Carl Hen. The idea 23 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: came about when they read about the nineteen seventy seven 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: escape of James L. Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. 25 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: So he was escaping from the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. 26 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: They discovered that he'd only managed to travel eight miles 27 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: or thirteen k's in sixty hours before he was caught, 28 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: and ultra marathon runners mocked that he'd traveled so little distance. 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: So this guy said, you know what, I reckon, I 30 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: could cover at least one hundred miles in that time. 31 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: So he said, about creating this race, and even entering 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: this race is so hard. Those who are able to 33 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: acquire a little known email address have to file an 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: essay why I should be allowed to run in Berkley, 35 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: And you have to lodge that on the right minute 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: of the right day to stand any chance of bagging 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: a spot. And this is where it gets really weird. 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: Let me tell you about how strange this race is. 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: There are five loops of twenty miles, but as I said, 40 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: it changes every year. There is no official start time. 41 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: Those who make it to Frozen Head State Park Campground 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: on the correct date are notified one hour before the 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: start by the sound of a conch shell. Yeah for guts, 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: you'll love this bit. The race then officially begins when 45 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: the race director lights a cigarette. On every lap. Runners 46 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: have to collect a page corresponding to their race number 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: from the fourteen books that are hidden around the unmarked course, 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: and the course involves a tunnel at the now defunct prison. 49 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: There's no GPS. There's only a very brief time to 50 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: memorize the map, limited notes on where to find the books, 51 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: and part of the paths are completely unmarked. So once 52 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: you find the pages from this book, you take them 53 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: to the race creator otherwise known as lads. At the 54 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: end of each lap, the first and the third laps 55 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: are on clockwise, the second and the fourth laps are 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: on anti clockwise, and the first person to finish the 57 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: fourth loop gets to decide which direction they go on 58 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: the last loop. Incredible, and so you can see why 59 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: so few people finish this course. This is Jasmine paris 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: this Listen to how shattered she is at the end, 61 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: and she only just made it. She finished one minute 62 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: and thirty nine seconds before this sixty hour cutoff. Here 63 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: she is at the end of the race over the 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: past five days, and I couldn't believe I was still good, 65 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: and it was like everything was screaming for oxygen. And 66 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: then I hit Brenda, you and me next year. It's 67 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: got us written all over it. Getting at Man ready. Wow. 68 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: Congratulations to everyone who's ever even thought of that.