Morgan County — Monday afternoon, elite runners from around the world were slowly leaving the campsite at Frozen Head State Park. Some stirred dying campfires at a time when many hoped to still be ...

The notoriously challenging and always obscure Barkley Marathons trail running race came and went with just a whimper this year. But the 40 runners who started this peculiar event near Wartburg, ...

Secrecy surrounds the Barkley Marathons. There's no race website, and dates for the annual event are hush-hush. That made covering the strange, grueling race a unique challenge. Although it wasn't my ...

The Barkley is a secretive and grueling 100-plus-mile race through Tennessee's Frozen Head State Park. Created by Lazarus Lake, the race is designed to push runners to the absolute edge of human ...