EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Dev Okafor
Chattanooga, TN · High school chemistry teacher
The crowd favorite, back for a third year after going out at yard 44 last October.
The story
Dev grew up on the ridges above Chattanooga and found backyards the way most people do, by crewing a friend and deciding the corral looked like the best party in running. He went 31 yards · 31 hours · 129.2 mi his first year and 44 his second, the last of them in the dark with a borrowed headlamp. He teaches chemistry, which he says is the same thing: wait, measure, do not panic.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 48 yards · 48 hours · 200 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 60 yards · 60 hours · 250 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- Hot broth at the bell and a two minute nap with my shoes on. Never longer.
- What is in your kit?
- A camp chair, a cooler of broth and pickle juice, three pairs of socks, a dry shirt a night, tape, two headlamps and one slice of cold pizza I am saving.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- The same trail shoes I went 44 in, a long sleeve for the night yards, a beanie and shorts over tights.
- Who is crewing you?
- My sister Ada, who has never once let me sit down past 56 minutes.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 37 37 hours · 154.2 mi
- Fastest
- 38:18 yard 3
- Slowest
- 47:52 yard 37
- Average
- 42:56
- Last 3 yards
- → steady