Secrecy surrounds the Barkley Marathons. There's no race website, and dates for the annual event are hush-hush. That made covering the strange, grueling race a unique challenge. Although it wasn't my ...

The Barkley Marathons can be described as a mysterious event. There is no official race website, the dates and times are kept under wraps, and locating a course map is nearly impossible. The secrecy ...

It’s the world’s toughest foot race. The statistics speak for themselves: 20 finishers in 39 years. The leg-slashing sawbriars. The Blair Witch woods. The freezing fog and mocking lack of assistance ( ...

The 12-hour cutoff for finishing the 20-plus mile loop of the notoriously difficult Barkley Marathons trail race was quickly approaching, and still there were no signs of professional ultrarunner ...

Morgan County — Monday afternoon, elite runners from around the world were slowly leaving the campsite at Frozen Head State Park. Some stirred dying campfires at a time when many hoped to still be ...

What we saw at the Barkley Marathons, East TN's notorious ultra race The Barkley Marathons is a brutal race in which runners have 60 hours to cover 100 miles of unmarked terrain in Frozen Head State ...

Charles Barkley Drops Major Hint About His NBA Broadcasting Retirement Charles Barkley has built a very successful career in the broadcasting industry since retiring from the NBA in the early 2000s.