With all the hype surrounding Barkley this week and countless threads I’ve read on the Book of Faces about how every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to enter the race next year (yeah right!), I thought it high time Read More …
Many of you will probably be reading this title asking, ‘who is Bixley?’ and ‘what is Barkley?’ Let me elaborate. Matt Bixley is a rather strange Kiwi chap – you may have seen his name in lights on the infamous Read More …
It was Aussie ultra stalwart, Phil ‘Spud’ Murphy that first opened my eyes to the world of the Barkley Marathons. This mental race, deep in the Tennessee countryside contains nearly 20,000m of vertical (and down don’t forget), with no actual Read More …
After the ‘track meet’ at Western States a few weeks ago, attention in the US now turns to the ‘mountain men’ and the Hardrock 100 miler. After Barkley, this one is pretty much regarded at the hardest 100 miler around, Read More …
