None of the 40 competitors who entered the 100-mile 聽this past weekend finished the race.
The race requires聽entrants to complete five laps around a 20-mile loop in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, . When the 60-hour time limit passed on Monday, not a single participant had finished.
鈥淚 was pleased with the outcome,鈥 the event鈥檚 creator, Gary Cantrell, told Bloomberg. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a competition between the humans and the mountains. The mountains won.鈥
In 30 years, just 14 of approximately 1,100 runners have completed the race, leading many to label the Barkley聽as the world鈥檚 hardest race. This year鈥檚 event marked the first time since 2007 that the race had no finishers, and no woman has ever completed the event.
Nicki Rehn, a 40-year-old Australian woman, was able to complete 1.5 laps before giving up.聽
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 come here to be victorious. You come here to be humiliated,鈥 Rehn told Bloomberg. 鈥淚t鈥檚 lonely out there. It鈥檚 eerie. You have to be comfortable being inside your own head. Everyone comes back pretty broken. That鈥檚 the goal.鈥