and this is one of the saddest moments I've ever witnessed in sports," said Michael Doyle, editor-in-chief of Canadian Running Magazine, who was at the finish. After tapping the gate, he falls back and collapses on the road. In a video Robbins is shown sprinting toward the yellow gate that marks the start and finish line. There was confusion and sadness when Robbins crossed the finish line in the wrong direction six seconds over the cutoff time. "I got all my pages, but I went around the wrong side of the mountain in the fog," a severely weakened Robbins said in a post-race interview posted by Canadian Running Magazine. Racers in the Barkley Marathon must collect pages from books stashed along the route to confirm they passed through all the checkpoints. But in a blog post Robbins said he took a wrong turn soon after collecting his last page.
It was originally reported that Robbins was disqualified because he arrived at the finish six seconds late. Turns out Robbins ran off course during the final lap of the 100-mile race through the Tennessee backwoods, a mistake that regardless of his time disqualified him from being crowned an official Barkley Marathons finisher. North Vancouver's Gary Robbins finished the crippling Barkley Marathons race just six seconds past the 60-hour cutoff Monday - a heart breaking result but not the worst of the news for the ultra-marathon runner.
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