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rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote2024-03-22 09:30 pm
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HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

She only went and fucking did it:

https://twitter.com/keithdunn/status/1771285169963438324

Jasmin Paris just became the first ever woman to finish the Barkley Marathons.
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[personal profile] rushthatspeaks 2024-03-22 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
!

YAAAAAAY!

Thank you for letting me know!
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[personal profile] sanguinity 2024-03-22 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
omg!
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2024-03-22 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!
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[personal profile] sovay 2024-03-22 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Jasmin Paris just became the first ever woman to finish the Barkley Marathons.

W00T!
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[personal profile] kaberett 2024-03-22 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)

HURRAH having seen your post earlier and read some of the backstory I came back on my way to bed specifically to check if you had any updates!

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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-24 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for luring more people into the Barkley Marathons micro-fandom!

I can highly rec the first documentary on it, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, for a very good time -- it's rentable for 99p on Apple.
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[personal profile] kaberett 2024-03-24 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)

I shall hunt. You generally do an extremely good job of luring me into nonfiction microfandoms, I find. :-p I have a tab open on the Oxfam website with Tales from Out There ready to buy...

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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-24 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You generally do an extremely good job of luring me into nonfiction microfandoms, I find.

I think we may have similar tastes in this respect, certainly when it comes to documentaries on weird niche quasi-sports activities!
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[personal profile] kaberett 2024-04-05 09:57 am (UTC)(link)

Indeeeeed. Though I did also enjoy the Watergate materials!

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[personal profile] kaberett 2024-04-05 09:57 am (UTC)(link)

Delightedly watched on Monday, and A has just recced it onward at work!

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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-04-05 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ \o/ \o/
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[personal profile] cofax7 2024-03-23 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
oh, brava! Given that hardly anyone has EVER finished the Barkley, of any gender, that's amazing!
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-23 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
I believe she was the 20th-ever finisher in the history of the race! It was a very strong year this year (5 whole finishers -- they got lucky with the weather, apparently, and also it was a very strong line-up with multiple previous finishers returning), but yeah, there have been plenty of years where no-one finishes, including years where no-one even makes it onto the fifth loop.
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2024-03-23 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Wow!
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[personal profile] leecetheartist 2024-03-23 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Amazing! It's such a brutal course!
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[personal profile] hunningham 2024-03-23 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! Wow! Wow!
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[personal profile] silveradept 2024-03-23 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! It was apparently a very good year for finishers.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-24 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it sounds like they lucked out with the weather, but also they had an extremely strong lineup -- multiple previous finishers, then Jasmin (who timed out on loop 4 last year) and other very strong contenders like Damian Hall (who didn't make it this year, alas).
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2024-03-24 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
She did it!!!!

I expect that now that the barrier of disbelief has been broken, more women will follow.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-24 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
That tends to be how it goes! I mean, obviously Paris is a completely exceptional athlete, but so is any Barkley finisher.
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[personal profile] lokifan 2024-03-24 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
INCREDIBLE
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-03-25 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG, that is amazing and inspires me to finally tackle that bit of studying I have been putting off for a whole week now. Thank you so much for sharing the news!

Would you alert us if you find any interviews etc. featuring her? :D
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2024-03-25 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll definitely link if there's anything good! Though I suspect at the moment she's in the "sleep for three days" recovery phase.

Really lovely little piece from John Kelly, one of the other finishers:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C45tCzHLxUR/
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[personal profile] ivy 2024-03-25 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantastic! (As someone who finished a 50 miler with a 20 hour cutoff in like 19:58:30... fuck yeah, go her!!!)
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[personal profile] cesy 2024-03-26 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)

So cool!

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[personal profile] kaberett 2025-02-02 12:48 am (UTC)(link)

Coming back to this reading Tales From Out There - two women managed 3 loops in 1991 but despite Furtaw treating this as "finishers" the full course was actually 6 at that point (even though nobody believed it possible) ergo not counted thus for these purposes? (I am enjoying myself immensely but wish to better understand the deep lore!)

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