This lesson contains 14 slides, with text slides and 4 videos.
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The Barkley 100
The race that eats its young
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Today
- Learn about the barkley 100 marathon
- watch the documentary 'where dreams go to die'
- answer the questions
- think about credos and your bucketlist
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Before we start:
what is The Barkley?
imagine this.
You have 60 hours to do all these things at the same time:
run 5 or 6 marathons while also running up and down the Mount Everest twice while doing a big treasure hunt in a wild forest with nothing but a paper map and a compass.
Does this sound possible?
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Before we start:
what is The Barkley?
The Barkley Marathons are a race made to be nearly impossible. They want to test how far people are able to push themselves.
The race has been held for over 30 years and only 14 people have ever finished the race.
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Part 1
We follow Gary Robbins in his attempt to run the Barkley 100 Marathons. Gary is a very talented runner and The Barkley will be his biggest challenge yet.
There are some questions on the worksheet, answer them while watching the video.
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Slide 6 - Video
Part 2
Gary might have failed once, but he decides to return to the Barkley a year later after training even harder.
Watch his second attempt at the barkley and answer the questions of part 2 while watching.
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Slide 8 - Video
determination
Gary is doing really well in the race, but after loop 4 things get tough. Watch the following clip and try to understand where he gets his determination, his will to go on, from.
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Slide 10 - Video
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Let's look at the answers
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Homework
Write a credo for Gary
Think about something really big you think you can, or hope you can, achieve one day. Add this to your bucketlist for the task
