None of the 40 runners who attempted to finish the 100-mile Barkley Marathons in the mountains of eastern Tennessee completed the race, the first time since 2007 that the endurance test had no finishers.
"The mountains won," said Gary Cantrell, who created the event in 1986. "I was pleased with the outcome. It's a competition between the humans and the mountains."
In 30 years, 14 out of about 1,100 runners have completed the race, made up of five loops around a mountainous 20-mile course. With a finisher rate of about 1 percent, the Barkley has been labeled by many as the world's hardest race.
The 60-hour time limit passed Monday with no one having completed the race. A search began for the final runner on the course -- Jamil Coury of Phoenix -- when Coury hadn't checked in 7 hours after the 48-hour limit to finish his fourth lap. He showed up before dark.
"I got a little confused where I was," Coury said upon returning to camp, explaining that he took an eight-hour nap on a mountaintop after getting lost. "Thanks for waiting."
No woman has finished the race. This year a record nine attempted it, including Nicki Rehn, a 40-year-old Australian who is an assistant professor of education at Ambrose University in Calgary. Rehn completed 1.5 laps this year before succumbing.
"You don't come here to be victorious, you come here to be humiliated," Rehn said. "It's lonely out there. It's eerie. You have to be comfortable being inside your own head. Everyone comes back pretty broken. That's the goal. To break people, and he (Cantrell) does that."
He's a pro now
Bryson DeChambeau says he didn't feel any different at Hilton Head than he did during the previous 12 professional events he played, even with the $259,600 he earned in his pro debut.
The NCAA and U.S. Amateur champion has been preparing for this moment. The RBC Heritage was his eighth tournament dating to a runner-up finish in the Australian Masters last year. He has yet to miss the cut during that stretch, so going from a tie for 21st in the Masters to a tie for fourth at the RBC Heritage was simply progress.
"The whole reason we had this internship, per se, is so that I could feel comfortable through the transition," DeChambeau said. "And I think we've done that beautifully. It was nice to finish it off pretty well here and get a top-10 finish."
DeChambeau gets seven sponsor exemptions to earn the equivalent of 150th on the PGA Tour money list. Last week's performance puts DeChambeau at 156. If he gets inside 150, that would earn him special temporary membership and unlimited exemptions. He would need to finish equal to the top 125 this year to earn a full card for next season.
No Curry, no problem
"The Warriors faced the Rockets without Steph Curry," wrote Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com. "With a few more starters out it actually might have been a tight game."
Golden State won 115-106 to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
Sports quiz
Who gave up Roger Maris' 59th home run during the 1961 season?
Sports answer
Milt Pappas, who died on Tuesday at the age of 76.
Sports on 04/20/2016