EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Maya Ellison
Boone, NC · Physical therapist
A 100 mile finisher who came to backyards for the strategy and stayed for the corral.
The story
Maya finished her first hundred in Virginia in 27 hours and spent the whole last loop wishing she could just rest between miles. A friend told her that race existed and it was called a backyard. She went 28 yards · 28 hours · 116.7 mi in her first one, learned to walk the hills instead of racing them, and has treated every corral since like a clinic.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 42 yards · 42 hours · 175 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 50 yards · 50 hours · 208.4 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- A playlist I only ever play at 2:00 AM, and counting the headlamps ahead of me.
- What is in your kit?
- Tape, a foam roller nobody is allowed to borrow, oatmeal, two hard boiled eggs a night, a headlamp and a spare battery.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- Road shoes, a vest I never take off, arm sleeves and a cap that stays on until the sun goes.
- Who is crewing you?
- My husband Theo and our dog Biscuit, who is the real reason people visit our tent.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 37 37 hours · 154.2 mi
- Fastest
- 38:24 yard 1
- Slowest
- 49:10 yard 37
- Average
- 44:03
- Last 3 yards
- → steady