So it’s not surprising that by the fifth lap– the one where runners are required to go solo– things really started to fall apart for Robbins. There he was running alongside another runner and while he knew it was a friend, he could not figure out who it was. “We couldn’t remember who we were with at the moment,” he explains. Running while sleep deprived, he started to lose sense of who he was running with even though he and Campbell had been together the whole time. For Robbins, the hallucinations started early. Imagine being in physical shape to be able to make it to the top of these drop-offs only to lose time in the scavenger hunt for book pages. That’s one way of understanding how tough it is. “He’d say ‘umm I think Laz would put it under this rock,'” says Robbins. Campbell on the other hand, would intuitively know where it was hidden since he has had this experience. For example, some competitors spent hours looking for the hidden books. Robbins says that Campbell is a main reason why he got as far as he did. Having completed Barkley twice before this year, Campbell is basically a Barkley legend and getting to run with him would certainly be an advantage. “It got to the point where anything with two holes in it looked like a face. I’m seeing faces everywhere in the forest.”įor the most part, Robbins ran with Jared Campbell. Sexy legs are just par for the course as a trail runner 🙂 #barkley #barkleymarathonsĪ photo posted by Gary Robbins on at 5:34pm PDT
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