by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 16. . i could not understand how i got off… . but a quick look back shows that i counted hour 13 twice! so now we are back on track. we are down to 12 intact teams, and iceland is still one of them. how can you not love the icelanders? . now only finland is...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 14 . it is a slow beating. like boiling a frog. they barely notice the temperature slowly rising around them. 15 come in and 15 go out. again and again. . 12 intact teams remain. iceland stands alone atop the small countries leaderboard. they said going in they...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 13 . 50 miles in the bank. by now everyone knows they have been on their feet. . but, for perspective; 100 hours is still 88 hours away! . i got it wrong last hour. there are still 16 intact teams, three of them in the small division. for some reason...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 12 . not much time for an update. the sun is setting and it was time to build a fire. . overall, now only 15 intact teams… . two of them are malta and iceland! the combined population is less than a million. GO TINY ISLANDS!!! . among the small countries,...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 11 . now we are down to 3 intact teams in the small country division: iceland, malta, and switzerland! . amazing iceland is still running top 5 in the open division. they have come to play. . there are still 18 intact teams overall… . but i have to let you...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 10 . now the intact small teams are 5. vietnam lost their number 14 runner. still tied at 135, so it was another casualty of that enormous climb between the chair and the starting corral… . that is the hardest part of every course. . in the large division...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 9 . only 6 of the small teams remain intact. singapore, vietnam, malta, switzerland, and morocco. austria is still tied at 120, but they have one who has dropped. they wont be tied at the end of 9. . every yard we run now, more of the small country runners have...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 8 . mauritius lost their number 6 runner on hour 7. so there is one less intact team. malaysia, who already started down by 4 has lost 2 more, as they continue to run in a pouring rain. . weather is all over the place. but the race goes on. . before the race...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 6..the runners will be at 25 miles at the end of this one.basically a 6 hour marathon.easy enough,anyone can do that….once.each succeeding 6 hour 25 miler will get harder!.looking at the teams,it would seem that austria has passed hungary in the team speed...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
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by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 5 is underway. one more warning about the spammers… do not click on their fake links for the broadcast. the real broadcast is free. we are taking them down as fast as we can. . the scoring issues are almost under control, and there is now meaningful...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 4 started. . we have it good in the US. south africa is in the middle of an enormous storm. ukraine had to negotiate with another police group to keep running, even after all the extremes they had gone to in order to be permitted to run… . whatever happens...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
meanwhile, what is happening on the scoring front? . we are down to 5 countries who are still struggling to get their scores up bad mike is working on that. . as we all know, timing people are frustrated by backyards. because they want to put people in some sort of...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 3 is under way. . for the runners the excitement is still a long way off. but for the organizers the early hours are the most exciting. working out bugs in the broadcast. working out bugs in the scoring. getting into the hourly rhythm to keep things working...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
hour 2 is under way! . championship level backyarding is so different than the normal open backyard competition… . no one blew out a fast first yard in the USA venue. the first runners came in over 50 minutes. no one is milling around wasting energy between...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
relief..in 37 countries more than 550 runners and countless crew members and race staffs feel nothing more than a sense of relief..after two years of qualifying,months of preparation,and the vagaries of travel in 2022the races are all underway..at this point no one is...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 15, 2022 | Race Reports
welcome back my friendsto the show that never ends!.at least it is going to seem that way.at timing tents around the worldorganizers are as keyed up as if they are going to be running….and participantswell, who knows what is going thru their minds right now.they are...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 14, 2022 | Race Reports
the last thing i ever expected when we formulated the backyard idea;just to have a fun race in our backyardwas that it would bring me friends from around the world..as the race has spread across the globelike some sort of virus,i have made friends in so many places i...
by Lazarus Lake | Sep 3, 2021 | Race Reports
we are in the process of adding the “at large” lists to the website. these should be of great interest in several ways. At-Large List first is that they will show your world ranking for each year.everyone achieving 24 or more yards in an affiliated...
by Marcus Ekenstierna | Apr 27, 2021 | Race Reports
Herdy’s backyard ultra, probably the run of my life… so far. Posted by: bigkevmatthews@gmail.com Herdy’s frontyard Ultra, https://www.herdysfrontyard.com.au/ , the sister event to Birdy’s Backyard Ultra, https://www.birdysbackyardultra.com/ , just about the run of my...
