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To date, Japan’s Tomokazu “Tomo” Ihara has attempted the Barkley Marathons four times. In his 2023 race, a film crew captured his journey as he dove deep into the trenches of Frozen Head State Park. The film, Main Quest: The Footsteps Led by the Barkley Marathons, offers a uniquely personal perspective inside Tomo’s motivation for running some of the world’s most difficult trail ultramarathons including Barkley.
A leading professional trail runner in Japan, Tomo set a lifetime goal of achieving 100-mile races 100 times and has currently completed 70 of them. In the film, Tomo, a formidable athlete, faces a race he has yet to conquer—the infamous Barkley Marathons.
Editor’s note: this film includes subtitles