1/2/2024 0 Comments Lazarus lake![]() ![]() Please Review and Rate the Fastest Known Podcast (this helps people find the show). Please show your support here ! (The Internet is not free your contribution keeps this real). ![]() You are burdened with almost no advertising on this website and podcast - we rely on YOU. "The job of a race director is to help people find greatness in themselves." Please support Fastest Known Time Laz is one of the most unique and insightful people we've ever had on the podcast. "People don't stop when they can't keep going they stop when they think they can't win." "I wonder if we stumbled on a whole new sport." ![]() I wonder if I'm going to wake up and it's not real." Lazarus Lake is a retired accountant from the USA’s Deep South who became a maverick of trail running after pioneering The Barkley Marathons heres why the event earned him legendary sadist. "This is like a fantasy, because I'm just an old hillbilly who lives in the woods. Who'd have imagined such a wild success? Not Laz: The original Bigs Backyard Ultra is still is held on his farm in Tennessee, where 35 people competed on October 16, but this year 25-30,000 runners will enter an official Backyard Ultra in 65 countries. That's 16 hour miles."īackyard Ultras are another Laz invention ("Just One More Loop") and will possibly be his most enduring legacy. "If you run off the map, the map doesn't help much anymore. He didn't find his way back until 32 hours later. Since 40 people are in each year, two finishers every five years is about right." It's designed so only 1% of entrants should be able to finish. They are someone who goes home and works to get better." ![]() "A 'Barker' isn't someone who says, "This isn't fair!" and goes home. But not always clean, and not always fun." The Barkley Marathons is an iconic, world-renowned event, and the subject of two films, even though only 40 people enter, there is no website, and the time and even the date of the race is secret. That is a low bar, but possibly by accident he has single-handily changed ultrarunning forever. Or you can register as an individual and you will be allocated team mates by the organisers.Įntries are available now and cost $40 per region per runner.Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, (or is it the other way around?) could be the most creative person in the entire sport. The idea for the race was inspired upon hearing about the 1977 escape of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Even more improbable than the control of the lake’s fearsome dust storms, he writes. The Barkley course was the brain child of Gary 'Lazarus Lake' Cantrell and Karl Henn (Raw Dog). CRAW classifieds can be used to advertise for crazy colleagues to join you on the virtual odyssey of a lifetime. Robinson makes a convincing case that massive human developments need not always result in decimation. On your journey you and your team mates will cross vast deserts and huge mountain ranges traverse tropical jungles, vast plains and temperate forests ride on ferries and hop between countries on specially chartered flying boats, while collecting stamps from exotic locations in your own special passport – all virtually, of course. Here is an active map of the CRAW course around the Globe. Lazarus Lake continues to record and share Bigs stories, much to the delight of the ultra-running community. It has been divided into 12 regions and each ranges from 1,661 miles to 3,296 miles for a grand total of 30,167 miles (48,550kms). Blaine Moore (Prepared by) About the Author. It really is worth taking a look at this new Earth, as seen by Laz. Laz has taken his unique, lateral view of the planet we call home, turned it on its axis and plotted an extraordinary virtual route, starting and finishing at the USA/Mexico border. Starting on 1 September, runners will have up to two years to complete the Circumpolar Race Around the World (CRAW), covering more than 30,000 miles in relay teams of up to 10 persons. 'Laz', as he is affectionately known by thousands of Barkley Marathons devotees, buoyed by the success of the Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee 1,000km race that has nearly 20,000 participants and finishes on 31 August, has just announced his next, truly global challenge. What on earth goes on in the mind of idiosyncratic Barkley Marathons' creator, Gary 'Lazarus Lake' Cantrell (pictured above)? Well, the Earth actually features rather prominently in his thoughts if this latest, greatest, craziest virtual challenge is anything to go by! We will have hotdogs and bellywashers around the campfire (and laugh at the poor souls still running). We will time the laps with my wristwatch, and keep the results on a notepad. 2020 The world's your oyster in this greatest global challengeģ0,000 miles 10 runners per team one world the 'Laz' way Little Dog’s Backyard Ultra is a grassroots Backyard, returning to the roots of backyard running. ![]()
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