And after much soul searching, he's decided it won't be his last. It was his second unsuccessful attempt at Barkley, but he made it much further than his first. It takes a heck of a lot out of you to push that long and that far," Robbins said. His body is still recuperating from the attempt, which, despite its disappointing finish, has been called one of the greatest endurance performances ever by a Canadian.
Robbins reached the finish line just six seconds after the 60-hour cutoff, but it didn't matter he would have been disqualified anyway for getting lost in the fog of the unforgiving ultramarathon's mountainous Tennessee terrain and arriving from the wrong direction. The 160-kilometre race, considered one of the most punishing in the world, ended the morning of April 3. "The story doesn't end like this," the determined runner said outside his North Vancouver home Thursday. It's been less than two weeks since Gary Robbins came excruciatingly close to completing the infamous Barkley Marathons, but he's already thinking about his next attempt.
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