Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, 40-year-old British runner Jasmin Paris became the first woman to finish the Barkley Marathon. The infamously difficult ...

It is a backwoods ultra-marathon steeped in quirky traditions, and is one of the most grueling in the country. After the conch was blown and the cigarette was lit, 6 News sat down with founder Gary ...

Secrecy surrounds the Barkley Marathons. There's no race website, and dates for the annual event are hush-hush. That made covering the strange, grueling race a unique challenge. Although it wasn't my ...

It’s true – you can have too much of a good thing. Fast-forward to this year, however, and we saw no finishers at the Barkley. In other words, the race fought back – and won. To successfully complete ...

The Barkley Marathon can be described as mysterious. There isn't an official race website, the dates and times are kept under wraps, and locating a course map is nearly impossible. The secrecy of the ...

The Barkley Marathons can be described as a mysterious event. There is no official race website, the dates and times are kept under wraps, and locating a course map is nearly impossible. The secrecy ...

The Barkley Marathons is a brutal race in which runners have 60 hours to cover 100 miles of unmarked terrain in Frozen Head State Park.

The Edge of Possible: A Barkley Marathon Tale takes you deep inside the legendary Barkley Marathons, the world’s most elusive and punishing ultramarathon. Set in the unforgiving terrain of Frozen Head ...