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
Netherlands France Venezuela Portugal Brazil Morocco Sweden Denmark India Norway Vietnam Canada Malta Italy Australia Ukraine
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...
