EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Caleb Ashby
Columbus, GA · Army, retired
The last rucker in, carrying 20 pounds every yard and making the bell by seconds.
The story
Caleb carried a pack for a living for twenty years and says a backyard with a ruck is the first race where that counts for something. He is the last rucker still in, with 20 pounds dry on every yard, and has made the bell by under a minute four yards running. His record is 29 yards · 29 hours · 120.8 mi, which was a ruck division record when he set it.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 30 yards · 30 hours · 125 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 36 yards · 36 hours · 150 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- A different song every yard, out loud, badly.
- What is in your kit?
- Beef jerky, tortillas, foot powder, tape, a spare set of ruck plates I will not need and a chair.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- Boots broken in over a year, the ruck, a hat and a hooded layer for the night.
- Who is crewing you?
- My daughter Jo, home from college for this.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 37 37 hours · 154.2 mi
- Fastest
- 45:59 yard 1
- Slowest
- 59:02 yard 36
- Average
- 52:39
- Last 3 yards
- → steady