She and her husband Konrad now have two children. ![]() Paris is 38 and works full-time as veterinarian at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. ![]() Early on in the race, Paris was expressing milk at aid stations-a fact which briefly made her into an international media sensation. Not only did she beat all the men and set an overall course record (83 hours,12 minutes, 23 seconds), she was still breastfeeding her 14-month-old at the time. The usual madness, in other words.Īrguably, the most impressive performance in this year’s race came from Jasmin Paris, who became the first woman since 2013 to complete three out of five loops (60 miles) of the Barkley course-an achievement known as the “Fun Run.”Ī national fell-running champion from England, Paris gained prominence in 2019 when she won the Montane Spine Race, a notoriously difficult, 268-mile ultra from Edale, in Derbyshire, to the southern end of Scotland. ![]() Instead, there was freezing rain, sleep deprivation, and hallucinatory exchanges with inanimate objects. There were once again no finishers in the 2022 edition of the Barkley Marathons, the annual 100-mile bushwacker through Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park, created and conducted by Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell.
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