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If accepted, you receive a "letter of condolences". The fee? Just $1.60. First-timers must also bring a license plate from their home state or country.

There is no website. Potential runners must figure out how to find the "correct" email address and submit a "Why I should be allowed to run" essay. subtitle The.Barkley.Marathons.The.Race.That.Ea...

As the film suggests, the Barkley is more than a race—it's a "satanic running adventure" that asks a simple, terrifying question: How far are you truly prepared to push yourself? If accepted, you receive a "letter of condolences"

In the dense, unforgiving woods of Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park, a conch shell bellows into the damp air at an ungodly hour. One hour later, an eccentric man named Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell lights a single cigarette. This is not the start of a typical race—it is the beginning of the , a 100-mile odyssey designed specifically to ensure that almost everyone who enters will fail. A Legacy of Failure First-timers must also bring a license plate from

For Lazarus Lake, the race is a philosophical statement. He believes that most people would be "better off with more pain in their lives" and that "nothing can be accomplished without the possibility of failure". Legacy and Recent Milestones