When Covid first really started escalating, with lockdowns, race cancellations, and other restrictions rapidly coming into place, I was at my family’s farm back in Tennessee just a few miles from Frozen Head. With Barkley canceled, I went out to Frozen Head for a “No Barkley Barkley” – 5 loops around the park, all on trail within daylight hours, completed within 60 hours. I wore flags on my pack for each of the countries that would have been represented at the race. Jim Matheny from WBIR came out to cover my finish and do a socially distanced interview afterwards for the segment below.
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Barkley 2018 race footage
Some on-course footage, pictures, and commentary from my time crewing and acting as a random course checkpoint at the 2018 Barkley Marathons. The video and audio quality are pretty horrible, but this is what I got so it’s this or nothing. And maybe grainy, noisy footage is appropriate for “on-course” Barkley coverage. 😉 Thank you to James DeFilippi for loaning me his camera for the weekend.
La Barkley sans pitie
This one was nearly a year in the making, starting with the incredible photos that Alexis Berg & Aurélien Delfosse took at the 2017 Barkley Marathons and then adding interviews with me, Gary, and laz. The editing and production here is incredible, and the result is a 20 minute film with portions that get me to relive the experience more than anything else I’ve seen to this point. (English with French subtitles)
https://www.lequipe.fr/explore-video/020-la-barkley-sans-pitie/
Read moreSportsCenter Segment on the 2017 Barkley Marathons
I gave up dreams of being on SportsCenter about 20 years ago, and those dreams had me as a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. It was an awesome, fun experience getting to do this, and even the rundown they had on the side was perfect. LeBron’s birthday is shortly after mine so I get an annual reminder that I’m older than him. But here, he had to wait. 🙂
This was also the first time in my life I’d ever worn makeup. I figured I should make the best of it so Jessi and I went out on a date after it was recorded. I certainly looked better than a few days earlier at least.
The flag they showed next to my name during the clip was MD, but if you look closely that’s a TN flag t-shirt I have on.
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RTBF – Immersion dans la “Barkley”, course à pieds la plus dure du monde
I have no idea what they’re saying, but this has some beautiful footage of the 2017 Barkley Marathons and the course. I admit that the drone annoyed me at one point, but I think that point was in getting the Rat Jaw shot that shows at about 7 minutes in, which is amazing. I felt like I was in the Game of Thrones intro.
Between this and multiple recent conversations through Google Translate I think I need to learn French!
Immersion dans la “Barkley”, course à pieds la plus dure du monde – Le Grand Format – 16/04/2017
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Run Steep Get High – Barkley Number Fifteen
Awesome video of the 2017 Barkley Marathons finish from Jamil Coury at Run Steep Get High
Pre Barkley Podcasts and Interviews
It turns out that I did actually do a few things before finishing Barkley, but… most of those things were failing at Barkley.
Read moreBarkley 2015 after Loop 3
After Jamil and I completed a Fun Run, I crashed pretty hard. The people feverishly trying to help me in this video when I’m at my lowest of lows are my wife and dad, and then two people I had never even met before the race but have since become close friends: Jodi and Karine.