Published: April 02, 2019
Nicky Spinks, 51, pulled out of 100-mile Barkley race in US, which no one finished this year
A British runner was one of the last women to drop out in this year’s Barkley Marathons, a gruelling race that has been completed by just 15 people in its history and has ascents equivalent to climbing Everest twice.
Nicky Spinks, 51, a beef farmer and breast cancer survivor from West Yorkshire, ran alongside a Canadian, Stephanie Case, in an attempt at the 100-mile mountain event widely regarded as the world’s toughest ultra-marathon. For a second successive year, none of the 40 selected starters finished.
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