I walked down the hall with Linda and Reed, towards my parents, whose room was directly across from the second floor stairwell. My own room, with my wife and son, was half a hallway away from my parents, but my mother and I somehow opened our doors into the main hallway in unison and I waved at her with that look that says “damn fire alarm, I guess we should evacuate just to be on the safe side.”
She was informed that this was the fire alarm and she was to evacuate immediately. When the hotel alarms were triggered my mother thought it was her alarm clock, and she called front desk complaining that she couldn’t turn it off.
We had of course booked our own hotel that evening, and we were all in fact sleeping soundly just minutes before, but currently there were a few hundred people braving the winter conditions in their pajamas as firefighters streamed into the building. Snow was accumulating on the ground and my family, collectively my parents, wife and son, were walking between the hotels in the immediate vicinity asking if they had any available beds for the night. The temps were just below freezing, with a stiff wind gusting over people. Along with a look at what type of training Robbins puts in prior to his attempts at the Barkley and the sacrifices he makes to go after this incredibly hard endurance race, the film also explores “the demons that follow” when you come up short of a goal.It was 1:30am on Wednesday, March 21st and we were in Knoxville, TN. If you’ve ever wanted to know what kind of determination and drive it takes to even attempt to complete all five loops of the Barkley Marathons, the new documentary, Where Dreams Go to Die, released for advanced download on March 5, shows Robbins and his 20 attempts at this epic race.ĭirected by Ethan Newberry, an ultrarunner and filmmaker who many will know from his website, Where Dreams Go to Die recently completed its North American film tour, and the documentary will be available for download for a short period. But for two years in a row, the native of North Vancouver, British Columbia, could not tame one race-the Barkley Marathons.Īfter Robbins was bested by the Barkley in 2016-his first attempt at the ultra held within Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee that only 15 individuals have completed in more than 30 years-he returned in 2017 for redemption, only to DNF by what appeared to be seconds ( and in a completely delirious state). He has won the HURT 100 ultra multiple times in the hills of Hawaii, and over his career has finished in the top 10 of many other ultras. Endurance athlete Gary Robbins rarely starts an event he cannot finish.
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