If you gave me on over/under of 1 finishers this year I would take the under because of the 3 last year. Thanks for the heads up this is starting up soon. Do we know who is lining up this year?

I didn't say it's starting soon. I (paraphrasing myself) said the twitterverse seems to think it is starting soon.

Everyone is free to announce they are making an attempt in advance, if they choose. Most do not. The start list is not revealed, even after the start. As I understand it, if you finish a lap, your name will be revealed. If you start the race, but don't get at least a lap in, there will be no mention of you at all, unless you want to out yourself.

Im guessing very few if any finishers.

Those who can did last year and will not repeat.
And then there is the weather, if it is bad it is impossible from the get go.

Conch Blown at 4:17am and Cigarette lit at 5:17. It's underway!

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It looks like they might have pretty decent weather at least the first two days - sunny and low 60s as a high. There may be a little rain come in towards the 60 hour cut off.

I think there will be at least one finisher. There’s a couple of former finishers in the race, and Harvey, who won the backyard ultra last summer.

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Wow, thank you for letting us know. I've been checking Keith Dunn every few days but will check more often now.

For anyone who does not have an X (Twitter) account, you can follow Amelia Boone on Threads as she is relaying Keith Dunn's tweets about the BM100

Handy spreadsheet that gets updated semi-regularly.

As most can tell, don't have the full field of starters (yet), but some big, big names on the list. https://docs.google.com/...kFn4QlJKEXMV/pubhtml

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Watched Karel Sabbe’s documentary on last year’s race on the trainer this morning. Highly recommend. Didn’t realize it started today.

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Let food be thy medicine...

Yeah damn it is stacked this year! John Kelly is back and several 4+ loopers!

Yes, that dropped the other day & I watched it as well

I think this & Gary Robbins's are the best Barkley films out there

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Where can one find this documentary?

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clm
Nashville, TN
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Here ya go!!!

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Is gary robbins ever coming back? That.vid was amazing and yet so brutal!

Gary has said he won't be coming back to Barkley. Decided it wasn't worth the time away from his family.

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Also, he has the ITMB/Ironman nonsense still buzzing around

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"We are hoping there is no intervention from the Tennessee state legislature, as we currently have seven runners in transition. #BM100"

Oh jeez

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HAHAHAHA. That's an unfortunately too true joke.

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I watched this last night and was intrigued. It appeared as though the athletes refuel at the top of a hill. I also saw that some athletes stuck together to navigate the course. I will have to watch the other documentary.

I'm sure there's plenty of chatter on it over in The LR, but I gave up that side of the forum for Lent

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Two French guys, a Japanese guy, a guy with awesome glasses, a guy with daring shorts, and a non-descript guy, are out on Loop 2, from what I'm reading

No women, it seems? Where's Jasmin?

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Someone has called the Barkleys course "The Worlds Most Dangerous Library"

I kinda like that

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I didn't realize until watching Karel's video that they have to go under the prison at some point

Being "sensitive" to spirits & whatnot, that would freak me the fuck out, on top of everything else

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