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jess-lake.bsky.social
@jess-lake.bsky.social
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I don't actually use social media, I'm just here once a year for #BM100!
Recreational runner (she/her) training for (hopefully) a PB in the half marathon this spring, and maybe my first marathon in 10 months time...?
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drlygo.bsky.social
Barkley debrief from Laz 👌🏻

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Barkley debrief from Laz page 1 Lazarus Lake 4h • 0 barkley debriefing to say the course won this year is an understatement. and since the smoke cleared, revealing a battlefield littered with the corpses of hubris and overconfidence i have been thinking back over the past year and especially the past week seeking to understand what went wrong... and i came out with some definite opinions about what triggered the massacre of 2025. that doesn't mean i am right but i think the cat ass trophies of 2025 can be greatly attributed to a few mistakes repeated by a lot of athletes. sure, the course got tweaked. it gets tweaked every year. and i knew going in that this was a difficult barkley course. but, while it had a little more climb it was also shorter. i was actually not certain we would not have another mass finish! but in the leadup to the race i saw errors being committed that lowered my optimism for the field. 1) taking bad advice. i saw it written over and over, until it took on a life of its own. "follow a veteran" Barkley debrief from Laz page 2 better to develop your own navigational skills. how do you know the veteran you follow did not become a veteran by following veterans? and even if you latch on to someone with serious navigation skills if they leave you out in the woods, all that happened was that they led you a long way from safety and the main thing you learned was what the right direction looks like when someone's ass is in the middle of it! 2) take a picture of the map, and retreat to your own tent to copy it. that one is so stupid we arent even going to allow it next year. first, it is going to be nearly impossible to mark the checkpoints accurately from a phone picture. if you make it small enough to see where the mark is, you cannot tell the exact location. if you make it large enough to see the exact location, you cannot see enough of the whole map to see where it goes. and exact placement of the checkpoint locations is critical! second, what everyone lost was the discussion that normally goes on around the master map. following a veteran might be a fools errand. having them tell you what to look for when locating checkpoints or selecting your routes can be worth its weight in gold. which gets back to navigation and the checkpoints. i don't think the athletes realized how critical it is to: mark the checkpoints accurately navigate to them. Barkley debrief from Laz page 3 great pains are taken to place the marks on the exact location of the checkpoint. and i think many of the athletes with rudimentary navigation skills are unable to look at the map and exactly visualize a location. contour lines are not merely a record of elevation change. they are a picture of how the ground is configured. what i kept hearing was; "i shot a bearing" shooting a bearing is the most rudimentary form of navigation. if it is not pitch black night, or white-out fog i would not use a compass to navigate at frozen head. i would look at the map and match the contours with my surroundings. then, instead of a straight line through all obstacles i would pick the best route to reach my destination. old trails and logging roads are easy to follow. in the absence of human-made routes if you look at the contours for the "easiest" route you are almost certain to find game trails going the same way. animals always choose the easiest route to go from here to there, that is how game trails are formed. and game trails also take out a lot of the briars and undergrowth. there is an additional benefit to following the contours. you know what the ground should look like as you approach the location. we heard a lot of known excellent navigators comment that they passed clusters of virgins "turning over every rock" nowhere near the next checkpoint. no amount of searching will help if you cannot identify the checkpoint locations! Barkley debrief from Laz page 4 3) trying to brute force error correction. some people searched for checkpoints for as much as 5 hours, going back and forth over the same ground. then came home with a description that did not sound like they were ever in the vicinity of the actual checkpoint! checkpoints are not "hidden" they are not probably in plain sight, and they have to be placed where hogs cannot get to them. but the map markings and directions are intended to make them easy to locate. in a race with zero margin for error, i would not look more than 5 minutes before consulting the map. find a nearby landmark that is easily identifiable. or even a couple of more distant peaks that you can see... if these do not match what you should see from the checkpoint, then you are searching in the wrong place! my conclusion about the weekend is not that kind. but sometimes what you need to hear and what you want to hear are not the same. barkley is out there on the edge of possibility. but it is not impossible. for most athletes the 100 is not going to be in their future. the best ability, preparation, and execution might not be enough. but most of them should have been able to knock out one loop under the time limit! the 2025 field left a lot of cards on the table.
March 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
jess-lake.bsky.social
I cried. Again. What a moment that was, still amazed no matter how many times I watched and rewatched the footage…
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March 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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runningdadinor.bsky.social
Well, looks like next year's Barkley is the one to run! Time to download that Couch to Barkley app and start training! 🤣🤣🤣
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March 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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John Kelly’s fun run finish, shot by from @runsingletrack.bsky.social, is on Instagram now:

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March 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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medalmagpie.bsky.social
Tomo’s back! #bm100
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March 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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trustedsystem.bsky.social
With this year's Fun Run John Kelly has the following Palmares at #bm100:
30 Career Loops
4 Fun Runs
3 Finishes
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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snoweider.bsky.social
I'm not entirely sure if there are people still out on loop 1... 🙈
keithdunn.bsky.social Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · Mar 20
The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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thecardman.bsky.social
One quick question for those following #BM100 - with the current exception of Tomo, is everyone accounted for?
March 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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oli-hague.bsky.social
Barkley wins with a dominant performance.

Normal order has been restored.

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keithdunn.bsky.social Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · Mar 20
The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
jess-lake.bsky.social
I wonder about Tomo's story! He was well ahead all the way, what happened to him on loop 3? #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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keithdunn.bsky.social
The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
jess-lake.bsky.social
I have to get on my bike to go to work soon, and when I get there the cutoff will have passed. Come on guys, I’d love to start my work day celebrating at least one Fun Run! You can do it! #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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davidblank1.bsky.social
Loop directions this year were CCXX #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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keithdunn.bsky.social
We are 36 hours into the race, meaning the three runners still on Loop 3 cannot continue to Loop 4. However, if they complete Loop 3 within 40 hours they will be credited with a Fun Run. That’s where the real race is now. #BM100
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
jess-lake.bsky.social
I’m skeptimistic.

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johnsug.bsky.social John Sugden @johnsug.bsky.social · Mar 19
For John Kelly to go to Loop 4, he'd need to finish in 10:59:20. His prior loop 3 finishes (in likely better years) were 12:12:49, 12:24:25, 12:39:59, 15:52:08, 11:56:59, and 12:09:08. I'm skeptical about him completing an 11 hour loop, but he has lots of margin (14:59:20) to go for a fun run

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March 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
jess-lake.bsky.social
Seems like the rain will start right around the 36 hour mark… Which will suck if one of them does manage to pull off a fourth loop miracle #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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keithdunn.bsky.social
Tomo and John have passed the Fire Tower; John about 30 minutes behind Tomo. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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pdeboiserie.bsky.social
If 4 people can face the thought of loop 3 at 24hrs+ in I can get on my bike for 30 mins of light cardio. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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keithdunn.bsky.social
Beginning Loop 3. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
jess-lake.bsky.social
25 mins and not yet started loop 3… Hope they’re not giving up! #BM100
keithdunn.bsky.social Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · Mar 19
Sébastien Raichon finished Loop 2 in 25:29:15; Maxime Gauduin in 25:29:16. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
jess-lake.bsky.social
@taka-does-stuff.bsky.social do we know for sure that the French guys didn’t also run loop 1 together? Since there are two very similar loop 1 splits that might actually be theirs? Not sure about the info given on their loop 1 finishes anymore… #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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keithdunn.bsky.social
Sébastien Raichon finished Loop 2 in 25:29:15; Maxime Gauduin in 25:29:16. #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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marleyd.bsky.social
Man, the 800m is tough, and so are the last 5K of a marathon. But what I can't begin to imagine is arriving back at camp after 24 hours of running and searching for books, sitting down, and somehow deciding to head back out there 10 mins later... Only at the Barkley Marathons 😂

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March 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
jess-lake.bsky.social
So last year at some point it was also only theoretically possible for Jasmin to make it in time… I’m foolishly continuing to imagine a finish! #BM100
March 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM