And finishers experience a total of 120,000 feet of elevation change throughout the course, the equivalent of climbing and descending Mount Everest twice, according to a 2014 documentary called " The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young." Each of the race's five 20-mile loops is really more like 26 miles, most say. If ultramarathons are about testing human limits, a race like Barkley is about confronting the point at which people fail while facing those limits - or redefining success and failure entirely. In Barkley parlance, that's considered a "fun run." A runner named Gary Robbins came closest, completing three of the five loops of the course. In 2018, a year with particularly miserable course conditions, no one finished the race.
Since then, there have been only 15 finishers. The first Barkley race was held in 1986, but the course distance was bumped up to at least 100 miles - probably 130 miles, depending on who you ask - in 1989.
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