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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Endurance Artist: Lazarus Lake, the Barkley & a Race with No End

The Endurance Artist: Lazarus Lake, the Barkley & a Race with No End

Beasley, Jared
Quinn, Steve

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ISBN13: 9798228696495
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: Oct 7 2025
Language: English

A rare look into an enigmatic accountant from the Tennessee backwoods who morphs into Lazarus Lake, the world's most notorious race maker.The Endurance Artist is an all-access pass to the world's most grueling races and the mastermind behind them.Gary Cantrell, better known by the nom de guerre Lazarus Lake, has been described as a hillbilly genius and the Leonardo di Vinci of pain. His Barkley Marathons is considered the most difficult ultramarathon ever devised, a fight club in the wilderness run in secret. With books hidden in the woods, a cigarette-start, and elevation gain that amounts to summiting Mount Everest twice, the Barkley defies convention. Big's Backyard Ultra pushes human beings to their absolute limit on a four-mile loop that is run every hour starting on the hour until there is just one runner standing--most recently, a high school teacher who ran 450 miles without sleep.Author Jared Beasley uncovers the world of a recluse hell-bent on rewriting the rules to reveal a life reimagined and failure reinvented. Laz calls into question our obsession with winning and fairness, success and failure, and whether these ideas handicap potential.

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