Last year, getting through the full 60 hours and the full five laps of the course was infinitely harder than even doing four laps. How do you plan to deal with it on the course?
Ready to go from dawn till dusk – and much much longer. But the actual training block leading into the last Barkley worked so well that I’m actually looking at replicating that again. So I did change my training a bit initially to gain some fitness that I felt I was lacking. Initially 20,000ft of climbing, then 30,000ft, and last week 40,000ft of climbing. Last month the focus has shifted to 100% vertical training. I got back into more 100-mile distance weeks, rather than vertical-based weeks for a couple of months in the winter. So, when I got back into my training in November my focus was on more run training. I don’t believe that there was anything in my training for the first few years that I had to alter.īut I did find that by focusing on this specific race for so long, that had me moving through difficult terrain at 2 miles per hour, I got really efficient at moving 2 miles per hour – so I haven’t done much run training for the last few years.
Through the first two years, I was definitely on the starting line with the physical and mental capabilities to finish the race. Third time training for the Barkley Marathon: What’s different? Read on to find out how his training and preparation is going. Gary Robbins, of course, is not the kind of runner, and after a quick recovery – he ran the Nolan’s Fourteens just a few months later – he was back on the Barkley horse.Īfter last year’s dramatic non-finish, Gary hit his saturation point talking about the race – no, really, he even told us so – so we figured we’d better focus on this year’s race. It’s the kind of result that has a less willful runner saying ‘never again’. It was unequivocally a DNF – and probably the most heartbreaking DNF in the history of DNFs. He crossed the finish line from the wrong direction, a few seconds after the 60-hour time limit. After nearly 60 hours of racing, a missed turn in the last moments took him off the course as he approached the finish. But there have likely been very few losses tougher than Canadian ultra-runner Gary Robbins’ result 2017 Barkley Marathons.
We let him do what he does best – ramble on.įor the truly competitive athlete, every loss or DNF is a tough one. So it’s no surprise that Gary Robbins had plenty to say about the Barkley. During a 60-hour race, you get a lot of time to think.
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