big's backyard hour 3:the routine is starting to settle in.doing the trail loop is not fastso some of the team is only arriving a couple of minutes ahead of the whistles.but these are veterans.tent city is clustered around the corraland nobody is in the corral ahead...

big's backyard hour 2:no hour one update,we were busy taking the crews around to watch the runners at several locations on the loop.and then showing them the official halfway overlook they can go to spectate over the next few days.all 15 runners showed up this...

big dog's backyard ultra 30 hours:final standings in the small countries division:guatemala: 258uruguay:(-13)namibia (-19)in the mid-size division nederland seems determined to eliminate the drama.still with a division leading 12 athletes,they now have 422 cumulative...

hoping none of the runners feel like we do here at the race workers' bunkhouse.i am so beat.the last week has been nothing but intense.way too much time on my feetand lifting and toting for these old bones.late nights getting intimate with the keyboardand burning my...

now i need to ask a favor.the post with the link to watch the broadcast;the scammers with all the fake sites and fake livestreams are sucking people in.they have a big advantage in that all they have to do with their time is try to suck people in.we have to actually...

at last we come to the end of the series.and we end with the seat of power in the world of backyard.if the US is the favorite,it is only because we are one huge country.if there was only one team from western europe it would annihilate the competition!the top seed...

asia is one of the smaller groupings,because several of the area teams belong to the small and large islands grouping.the odds on favorite among the mainland teams is vietnam.bac tran leads team vietnam with 34 yards,and they have the wily veteran van da bui to...

eastern europe: the balkans and the slavic countriesin this case the story is not as much who is going to playas it is how many countries are going to be there next time.backyard has been growing rapidly in this area the last couple of years,and this year's big's will...

of course we cannot address these groups without figuring out what to do with australia"they" call it a continent.but it sure looks like an island….and if we can deplanetize pluto,why cant we decontinentalize australia?even if we didn't throw australia into the...