EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Nora Quill
Hood River, OR · Boat builder
The dark horse. Runs every yard within a minute of the last one.
The story
Nora builds wooden boats, which is slow, patient work, and she runs the same way. Nobody picked her to win because she has never raced a backyard this big, but she walked every yard of a small one in Oregon last year to 38 and looked, by all accounts, bored. The fans who did pick her picked her as the dark horse, 310 of them, more than anyone.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 44 yards · 44 hours · 183.3 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 70 yards · 70 hours · 291.7 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- Same as the day yards. I do not change anything.
- What is in your kit?
- Rice, broth, a dry pair of everything, a cooler, a camp chair and a woodworking magazine.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- The same shoes every yard, shorts, a merino tee and a wool hat at night.
- Who is crewing you?
- My dad, who built the boat I built my first boat in.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 37 37 hours · 154.2 mi
- Fastest
- 38:36 yard 3
- Slowest
- 50:05 yard 37
- Average
- 44:22
- Last 3 yards
- → steady