The 2026 Barkley Marathons has ended and there was no finisher. The race has always prided itself on being difficult to the point of impossible, but there have been finishers in the past and perhaps ...

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 ...

The notoriously challenging and always obscure Barkley Marathons trail running race came and went with just a whimper this year. But the 40 runners who started this peculiar event near Wartburg, ...

And so the Barkley wins again. The self-styled ‘race that eats its young’ chewed up and spat out everyone this year. Only Frenchman Sébastien Raichon completed a ‘fun run’, the misleading term for ...