"I wonder if we stumbled on a whole new sport." I wonder if I'm going to wake up and it's not real." "This is like a fantasy, because I'm just an old hillbilly who lives in the woods. Who'd have imagined such a wild success? Not Laz: The original Bigs Backyard Ultra is still is held on his farm in Tennessee, where 35 people competed on October 16, but this year 25-30,000 runners will enter an official Backyard Ultra in 65 countries.
That's 16 hour miles."īackyard Ultras are another Laz invention ("Just One More Loop") and will possibly be his most enduring legacy.
"If you run off the map, the map doesn't help much anymore. He didn't find his way back until 32 hours later. Since 40 people are in each year, two finishers every five years is about right." It's designed so only 1% of entrants should be able to finish. They are someone who goes home and works to get better." "A 'Barker' isn't someone who says, "This isn't fair!" and goes home. But not always clean, and not always fun." The Barkley Marathons is an iconic, world-renowned event, and the subject of two films, even though only 40 people enter, there is no website, and the time and even the date of the race is secret. That is a low bar, but possibly by accident he has single-handily changed ultrarunning forever. Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, (or is it the other way around?) could be the most creative person in the entire sport.
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