35 out of 40 names! Pretty good

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Addition to the spreadsheet: Ed Thomas also participated again: www.facebook.com/652177215/po... #bm100

The 2026 Barkley Marathons: The Strongest Field Ever vs The Course (Film) YouTube video by Singletrack

Loop 1 exact times from 2026 #bm100
Séverine Vandermeulen: 12:31:39.
Chris Roberts in within a minute of that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXi4...
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Found our Ohio runner! CJ is CJ Laroche, of Bellaire OH. 40 years old. Found by scanning Barkley Fall Classic results. @taka-does-stuff.bsky.social

Very long report from Mathieu Blanchard to read on Facebook and Instagram.

Here's what he says. First off, Mathieu is very well-known in France. Along with Courtney Dauwalter, he's probably the biggest name to run Barkley.

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California could be Guillaume, Ohio I could have SWORN I added, and India I saw forever ago and simply forgot, thanks!

Photos of 'unknown' runners

Credits (Instagram) : David Miller, Ashlinalive, cartercaptures_photography

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Max King also posted now: m.facebook.com/story.php?st... #bm100

Total under-cutoff Barkley loops of experience of the field combined: 67 down from 73. Pretty close actually considering the lack of Tomo and Steene! #bm100

Since we now know 31 out of the 40 runners, exactly as many as last year, perhaps now's a good time for some stats:

20 virgins up from 17 last year.
Combined number of Barkleys experienced before this one: 26 down from 37.
10 women up from 5.
18 international athletes, same as last year! #bm100

Barkley Results

Another major update to the #BM100 sheet: 31 out of 40 names! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Thank you

We were remarkably close about which runner got which time! #bm100

Great work with all these

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#bm100 www.facebook.com/distancesplus Footage confirming Ronan Pierre was with the lead pack at loop 1 fire tower. Might plausibly be one of our unknown loop 1 finishers

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Okay thanks! Still looking to find out who the lead woman was then

None necessarily, maybe the Newfoundland & Labrador one if that chain is also from this year. Or the non-scottish UK one since Damian isn't a newcomer and thus wouldn't have brought a plate

I don't fully understand, does this imply that Gina did a loop under the cut off and/or does it imply Maggie was not racing herself? Also I don't know what video is being referred to

Pic of the @ultradamo.bsky.social's barefoot-start.

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Could you link the post?

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The runner from Japan was Akihiro Maeda.

He says that he didn't finish the first lap.

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Very impressive find! And she's from my neck of the woods!

The 2026 Australian was Stephen Redfern

Finally, he announces a video will be released about his Spine-Barkley double, which he's calling the Sparkley.

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Could you link exactly what you makes you think that?

Thank you!

I'm also relatively confident it's Poland anyway just from the orientation of the flags around it. But you never know if the person that hung them up knows their flags

I'm very colorblind and will take your word for it