Every year, Tennessee hosts one of the most intense races in one of the most unforgiving landscapes but not many people have actually heard of it; The Barkley Marathons, said race, pit runners against their absolute mental and physical limits. The race is five 20-mile loops, almost entirely off-trail, with a total elevation gain that more than doubles the height of Mt. Everest. In three decades, only 14 people have ever finished.
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