![]() ![]() When Laz posted the link in May to the entry form, I immediately mailed in my $50 check. Several articles are on the Wiki page if anyone is interested in the ultimate challenge. The race was put on by Lazarus Lake, the race director for the famous Barkley Marathons (100 mile run or 60 mile fun run) where only 12 people have finished since 1986. Last year it occurred entirely on the trail with no road course at night which definitely made it more difficult. I followed the race with the reports and pictures online and was surprised the race only went 18 hours. The idea sounded very intriguing to me and I wanted to run it but I was already signed up for the Pumpkin Holler Hunnerd the same weekend. ![]() I joined the Ultra e-mail list 1.5 years ago and learned about the Backyard Ultra last year which was the first year for the race with the death match format. Prize money going to the eventual winner. Total prize money with $50 to the winner of every 12 th hour and all remaining If all runners time out on the same loop, there is no winner. If the race gets to a point where all but one runner wants to quit, that runner must still run one more loop under an hour to win. ![]() Winner will be the last man (or woman) able to complete a loop within the time Runners that are able to continue are tied for first each loop. Runners failing to make the start in any hour will be eliminated. Runners failing to complete a 4.16 miler within an hour will be timed A single loop race will take place at every hour, The race takes place on a 4.16 mile trail loop beginning at 7 am and then switches to an out and back road course beginning at 7 pm assuming that anyone is left at that point. Is a different sort of Ultramarathon, where neither the time, nor the distance ![]()
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