Please Review and Rate the Fastest Known Podcast (this helps people find the show). Please show your support here ! (The Internet is not free your contribution keeps this real). You are burdened with almost no advertising on this website and podcast - we rely on YOU. "The job of a race director is to help people find greatness in themselves." Please support Fastest Known Time Laz is one of the most unique and insightful people we've ever had on the podcast. "People don't stop when they can't keep going they stop when they think they can't win." "I wonder if we stumbled on a whole new sport." I wonder if I'm going to wake up and it's not real." "This is like a fantasy, because I'm just an old hillbilly who lives in the woods. Who'd have imagined such a wild success? Not Laz: The original Bigs Backyard Ultra is still is held on his farm in Tennessee, where 35 people competed on October 16, but this year 25-30,000 runners will enter an official Backyard Ultra in 65 countries. That's 16 hour miles."īackyard Ultras are another Laz invention ("Just One More Loop") and will possibly be his most enduring legacy. Laz Is Known Around The Running World As. "If you run off the map, the map doesn't help much anymore. Dave & Joe Interview Gary Cantrell, AKA Lazarus Lake, Creator Of The Barkley Marathons & Bigs Backyard Ultra. He didn't find his way back until 32 hours later. Since 40 people are in each year, two finishers every five years is about right." It's designed so only 1% of entrants should be able to finish. They are someone who goes home and works to get better." "A 'Barker' isn't someone who says, "This isn't fair!" and goes home. But not always clean, and not always fun." The Barkley Marathons is an iconic, world-renowned event, and the subject of two films, even though only 40 people enter, there is no website, and the time and even the date of the race is secret. That is a low bar, but possibly by accident he has single-handily changed ultrarunning forever. Cantrell suggested he could run 100 miles in that amount of time - and thus the race was born.Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, (or is it the other way around?) could be the most creative person in the entire sport. Ray only managed to travel 8 miles in about 60 hours before authorities found him. Gary Cantrell conceived the Barkley Marathons after James Earl Ray escaped from a maximum-security prison in the Tennessee mountains in 1977. The Barkley Marathons episode premieres on “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” on HBO tonight at 7 p.m. Ahora ‘Lazarus Lake’ es una referencia en este mundillo. The article was written by Jared Beasley, an ultramarathoner and professional journalist who has been published in running industry periodicals such as Runner’s World, Canadian Running, and Trail Runner. The episode will dive a bit into the history of the race and, more importantly, interview Cantrell on the quirky, grueling details. On Mathe New York Times published a profile of Lazarus Lake. “With only 60 hours to complete the race, runners are tasked with navigating through unenviable conditions, including temperature swings, rain, and even snow,” HBO teased in a press release. “There’s no mercy in sports, is there?” he joked. As Cantrell put it, the race organizers aim for about a 1% success rate - just a step above impossible. “The Barkleys,” as it’s also called, is a series of five back-to-back marathons through a difficult maze of trails, with over 100,000 feet of elevation and, of course, a time limit. HBO correspondent Mary Carillo will be interviewing race founder Gary Cantrell (aka Lazarus Lake) to discuss the backstory of one of the most challenging races in existence. HBO’s new “Real Sports” episode features a profile on the genesis of the “notorious and treacherous Barkley Marathons,” held annually in Frozen Head State Park, Tenn. The parable of Lazarus and the rich man is actually a story that fits squarely and comfortably within the resurrection sequence we find in Revelation 20:4-5 and multiple other places in scripture. ![]() The fairly odd and elusive Lazarus Lake is gracing HBO to talk about how he created the Barkley Marathons. Lazarus Lake (Gary Cantrell), creator of Backyard ultra and the Barkley Marathons We met with Gary Cantrell in Älvdalen in the north of Sweden where Sweden Runners arranged Älvdalen Backyard Ultra (ÄBU) 2019.
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