![]() ![]() What kind of training did you do for the Barkley? I needed to wait for that moment as it’s not the kind of race you can do without being fully committed. At some point last summer, I suddenly wanted to do it. In 2019, after I won the Spine Race, people started asking me if I was going to run, but it took about two years for that idea to sink in. I also wasn’t inspired by the idea of running in loops around the same course – although, in reality, it never felt like I was on the same loop. But I wasn’t particularly attracted to it as it sounded a bit crazy and a suffer-fest. Ultimately, it wasn’t in the cards for Hamilton, who did not complete loop four in under 48 hours (the rule for being allowed to attempt loop five).When did the Barkley Marathons first capture your imagination? Hamilton was moving well, but he had time to make up, arriving in camp after loop three almost three hours behind Sabbe. Hamilton, an orienteering expert, ran the early two loops with Big’s Backyard Ultra stars Courtney Dauwalter and Harvey Lewis, before going ahead of them at the end of the second loop (where Dauwalter and Lewis dropped after failing to find the seventh book). The local sheriff pulled Sabbe aside, escorting him back to camp, where his 2022 Barkleys attempt sadly came to an end. ![]() The fourth loop in the dark did him no favours, as he was found off-course in another town, chatting with a garbage can who he thought was a person (he’d been running for 40-plus hours at this point). Sabbe was making good time, finishing three loops in just over 32 hours. The 2022 Barkley Marathons has come to an end after the last two competitors, Karel Sabbe and Greig Hamilton, bowed out on their fourth loop of the 20-plus mile course.
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