Results: Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race

Jasmin Paris from Midlothian completed the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee with just one minute 39 seconds to spare of the 60-hour cut off. She was so exhausted she slumped to the ground after finishing the race which is inspired by a famous prison escape. The course, at Frozen Head State Park, changes every year but covers 100 miles involving 60,000ft of climb and descent - about twice the height of the Mount Everest. It is roughly five loops of 20 miles with only 35 participants allowed each year. Have you heard of the Barkley Marathons before?

The Barkley course was the brainchild of Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and Karl Henn. The idea for the race came when they heard about the 1977 escape of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Ray covered only about 12 miles (19 km) after running more than 50 hours in the woods, hiding from air searches during the day. Mr Cantrell is reported to have mocked the distance covered by Ray, saying: "I could do at least 100 miles." Do you think you could cover more than 12 miles (19 km) after running more than 50 hours in the woods while being chased by police?

The race starts any time from midnight to noon on race day, with one hour till race start signaled by blowing a conch. The course is unmarked and competitors must memorize the route beforehand, and must tear certain pages out of books along the course to mark that they stayed on course. The first and third loops are run clockwise, while the second and fourth loops are run anticlockwise. The first finisher of the fourth loop gets to decide which direction they go on the last loop. If the prize was 10 million dollars, do you think you could finish this 100 mile race through the woods in under 60 hours?