Jamil Coury, Mike Wardian on running the Barkley Marathons, 2017's epic ending

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🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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One of the biggest stories in running this week was Gary Robbins' near-miss at the 2017 Barkley Marathons, where he finished six seconds over the 60-hour cut-off time. It was later revealed that his finish may not have counted, if he had run under the time limit since he veered off the course and missed about two miles. Check out #BM100 on Twitter to see just how much people love this unique race. If you haven't watched the documentary on Netflix, please do so. A 100-mile race is crazy enough but there's many elements that make the Barkley Marathons special. John Kelly who finished with about 30 minutes to spare on Monday was just the 15th finisher in the race's history. Ultra runners Jamil Coury and Mike Wardian are good friends of the site and so we reached out to them to share their experience from the Barkley Marathons and their take on the finish. Jamil fell short of completing the Fun Run, which consists of three loops of the course. Mike was done by the first day. Mike is also best known for completing the seven marathons on seven continents in seven days earlier in the year. Subscribe on iTunes and leave a five-star review. Also: We will be at the 2017 Boston Marathon next weekend so let us know if you're interested in sponsoring the show. We will have several episodes live from Beantown. Email us at citiusmag@gmail.com

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Citius Mag podcast is brought to you by the price of a mile with Woody
0:04.4	Kincaid. That's right, we've got another podcast on Citius mag.com. This one brings you an inside
0:10.3	look at the Behraman Track club and it's hosted by
0:12.7	BTC rookie Woody Kaincade. In his first episode he featured American record
0:17.8	holder and Olympic silver medalist Evan Jager. This month's episode
0:21.4	features another seepler, Dan Ewing.
0:24.0	Dan talks about how he found his passion for running and the steps that he took to become one of the top American
0:29.6	elites in his event.
0:30.8	He also gives a pretty honest look at dealing with the disappointment
0:35.1	that came with missing three Olympic teams. It's a very insightful conversation
0:39.2	so I highly recommend look up the price of a mile with Woody Kincaid on iTunes. I would you
0:43.0	you can cade on iTunes, subscribe to listening to it on
0:46.8	SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcast today.
0:50.2	Chris Chavez here.
0:51.0	One of the biggest stories in running this week was the dramatic finish that took place at the 2017 Barclay Marathons.
0:57.0	Now for anyone who isn't familiar with the race, I really recommend that you take the next hour and a half or so and watch Netflix documentary on it.
1:05.8	So pause this podcast and come back to us later if you want.
1:09.8	But if you want the Sparknost version of it, which I don't really think does it justice, here it is.
1:15.2	It's a 100 mile foot race in frozenhead State Park in Tennessee.
1:19.2	You're running through mountains, you're walking through rivers, there's 60,000 feet plus of elevation game so it's so
1:28.2	it's really really difficult and it's got it's fun quirks where there's only 40 runners that have been selected through a secret race registration process. There's no official start time.
1:38.0	There's a signal that marks an hour to the race and then once the race director lights a cigarette, then the race goes off.
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