EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Rory Vance
Lexington, KY · Farrier
Shoes horses all week and runs loops all weekend. Steady as a fence post.
The story
Rory shoes horses for a living, which means long days bent double, and says a backyard is the first race that ever felt restful by comparison. He has gone 36 and 39 yards · 39 hours · 162.5 mi in two tries and was the last man standing at a small backyard in Indiana last spring, at 41. He does not look at the clock until the three minute warning.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 40 yards · 40 hours · 166.7 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 48 yards · 48 hours · 200 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- Cold air and a hard boiled attitude. I like the night yards better than the day ones.
- What is in your kit?
- Peanut butter sandwiches cut in quarters, a thermos of coffee, a spare headlamp, a cooler and a folding chair I try not to sit in.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- Cushioned shoes, a wool base layer at night, a windbreaker and a wool cap.
- Who is crewing you?
- My brother Cal, the first year he has agreed to it.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 37 37 hours · 154.2 mi
- Fastest
- 40:07 yard 1
- Slowest
- 50:38 yard 35
- Average
- 45:30
- Last 3 yards
- → steady