🪓 Barkley 2025: The Forest Took Everyone

📍Frozen Head | March 2025

0 finishers. 0 mercy.

After last year’s historic 5 finishers (and the first woman ever), Barkley snapped right back to its savage roots. 🌲

🕛 By hour 24: Nobody had started loop 3.

👣 Only 9 made it out for loop 2.

💀 The course said no.

👑 John Kelly gutted out a brutal Fun Run (3 loops) in 39:50:27 — just 10 mins under cutoff.

“That hurt more than my last two 5-loop finishes.”

🇫🇷 Raichon & Gauduin? Toast.

💔 Kelly Halpin missed loop 1 cutoff by 2 mins.

🔥 Claire Bannwarth & Christiana Rugloski — done after 1.

🌡️ Wild temps. 🌫️ Dense fog. 🌿 Overgrown chaos.

The Barkley was a beast this year — and it ate.

Since 1986, just 20 have finished. That number? Still 20.

The loop names stayed the same. The course? Didn’t.

TL;DR

❌ No finishers

⏱️ Kelly nails a painful Fun Run

🌪️ Chaos conditions

🌲 Barkley’s bite is back

Someone’s already training for 2026. Are you? 👀

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