Barkley Fall Classic
Sep 21, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Barkley Fall Classic
Wartburg TN, 37887
USA
Entry Fee $170
(Lowest or Early Registration)
Entry Fee 2 $170
(Highest or Late Registration)
Prize Money: no
Distance(s):
- 50K
Type: Ultra
Participant Limit: 500
Starting Elevation: 1400
High Point: 3200
Percent of the course on un-paved trails: 95%
First Year of the Event: 2014
Men's Record: Scott Breeden 7:37:20
Women's Record: Alicia Rich 8:57:30
Description:
The Barkley Fall Classic was founded in 2014 by the famous race director of the The Barkley Marathons; lazarus lake.
The trails are many of the same trails featured in the Barkley.
The core race is roughly 50 kilometers (with about 20,000 feet of elevation change). designed to give the runner a taste of what the Barkley Marathons is all about.
It contains all the elements; beautiful trails thru the rugged Brushy Mountains, surprising new elements to the course every year, with the course map not revealed until the night before the race, numerous hard climbs and descents (including some of the signature hills that have made the Barkley a thing of legend), and a very personal challenge to face down the demons that wait for us at our very limits of endurance.
The BFC is a 50 kilometer race, with a ridiculous amount of climb and descent (with the attendant reward of numerous scenic vistas.) The course is designed to challenge the runner mentally, as well as physically. GPS is NOT ALLOWED, and those choosing to use it run the risk of lifetime ban. Course markings only exist at major turns, leaving the runner to rely on their confidence that they have not made a wrong turn, or missed a right one. Long sections of very runnable trail follow on the heels of strength-sapping sections of hills… requiring the successful BFC runner to run, when every fiber of their being cries out for taking things slow to recover. The most devastating climbs hit at the runner’s weakest moments. Everything is arranged to play on the doubts and weaknesses that exist in all of us. The BFC’er must not only beat the course to finish, but they must conquer their own darkest fears….
Map
Past Event Dates
Held on Sep 16, 2023
Held on Sep 17, 2022
Held on Sep 18, 2021
Held on Sep 19, 2020
Held on Sep 21, 2019
Held on Sep 22, 2018
Held on Sep 23, 2017
Held on Sep 17, 2016
Held on Sep 19, 2015
Held on Sep 20, 2014
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