The Barkley Marathons are considered to be the world's hardest endurance running races. Reading this book is an exercise in self-control and a true test of your willpower to not throw away something you have in your hands, just because it stopped making sense to you a long time back. It has a lot of information that might come in handy in terms of preparednessĢ. If you are planning on attempting the "Barkley Marathons", this book is highly recommended:ġ. Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and his race, "The Barkley Marathons" create such a subject matter that even the most poorly written content seems interesting. While the writer did a poor job for most of the book(barring the route maps and calculations which he goes on to repeat 20 times in the course of the book), the subject matter of the book saves it. The last 2 chapters(2008, 2009) were written in a different tone than the rest of the of the book.īut somehow, in some weird way, this was a book full of good stories, albeit poorly told. The formatting was all off, the author forgot to do a spellcheck and it looked like he simply printed a huge MS Word file on to 215 pages and published it.Īnd even the content in itself was repetitive, like an engineering student trying to fill up his assignment with additional words. Robbins died of a heart attack at the age of 56 on December 11, 2013.I'll be frank, this was probably the worst written books I have ever read. He was also a stuntman, stunt coordinator, voiceover artist and bodyguard. While in Japan he often worked tag team bouts teaming with Demolition Ax as "Demolition Hux". Robbins wrestled all over the world, including for many promotions across Canada, for Global Wrestling Federation in the United States, for New Japan in Japan, for World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and for Indo-Asian Wrestling in India. With makeup and prosthetics by Stan Winston, he portrayed the character "Saw Tooth". In Wrong Turn, he played one of three disfigured brothers in the West Virginia mountains. Robbins was discovered working as a bouncer in a local bar and went on to act in his first feature film, Humongous. Garry Robbins (Septem– December 11, 2013) was a Canadian actor and professional wrestler.
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