Strength is measured in a number of different ways. Some think it's a question of how much you think you can lift. Others think it's a question of how many times you can get up after being beaten. We tripped across a documentary about a quirky, lazy eyed, bearded, smoking runner who developed the most brutal endurance race known to man, known as the Barkley Marathon.
Funded by a kickstarter campaign by Annika Iltis and Timothy James Kane, we take a look at the 2012 annual cross country foot race inspired by a prison break by James Earl Ray (assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.). Get ready, because this race is packed with arduous athletic torture from start to finish. Terrain and length pulverize the bodies of everyone who is invited to run it. We can't underscore it enough, this race is a meat grinder for human beings. Over 90% of those who start the race can't finish it. Years go by without anyone being able to compete it. Will this year be the same or will a champion emerge?
Spoiler alert: We ran out of disk space on the recorder so the show stops abruptly. Sorry. Actually, don't cry big tears.
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