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The 3 reasons people love The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

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  1. You like sport at its most extreme and least glamorous.

  2. You want to watch people test how far a body and a mind can go.

  3. You like the odd race director and the stubborn runners he attracts.

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  • Meru2015

    • you want to watch people test how far a body and a mind can go

    Good for you if you like watching people push their bodies past what seems possible.

  • Grizzly Man2005

    • the odd race director and the stubborn runners he attracts

    Good for you if you like trying to understand someone who chose to live outside the world.

  • Hoop Dreams1994

    • sport at its most extreme and least glamorous

    Good for you if you like basketball as the dream that holds a family together.

  • Bobby Fischer Against the World2011

    • the odd race director and the stubborn runners he attracts

    Good for you if you're drawn to an obsessive mind, brilliant and troubled.

  • Into the Wild2007

    • the odd race director and the stubborn runners he attracts

    Good for you if you like a young man searching for meaning.

  • 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible2021

    • you want to watch people test how far a body and a mind can go

    Good for you if you like climbers pushing on through the death zone.

  • Valley Uprising2014

    • sport at its most extreme and least glamorous

    Good for you if you want to see how rock climbing turned into what it is now.

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