EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Owen Frey
Birmingham, AL · Line cook
Went out at yard 35, well past his best.
The story
Owen works a line in Birmingham and trains before his shifts, mostly on roads, and brought a surprising amount of speed to his second backyard. He said 30 and went 34 yards · 34 hours · 141.7 mi before the bell caught him at 35. His crew fed half the corral.
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?
- 38 yards · 38 hours · 158.3 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- Hot sauce. On everything.
- What is in your kit?
- Whatever I cooked the night before, which this year is a lot of fried rice, a cooler, tape and two headlamps.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- Old faithful shoes, a tee, a hat and a flannel for the corral.
- Who is crewing you?
- Two cooks from the restaurant and a very large cooler.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 34 34 hours · 141.7 mi
- Fastest
- 51:35 yard 4
- Slowest
- 59:48 yard 34
- Average
- 55:22
- Last 3 yards
- → steady