Backyard Ultra Podcast

Rob & Jac Parsons

Rob Parsons is one of the best Backyard Ultra runners in the world, proven by his top 12 performance at Bigs in October when he completed 84 yards to place him eleventh overall.  Jac has crewed for Rob at all his BYU's and is a huge factor in his success.

Gaby Villa - intenseatfit

Gaby is a dietitian and sports nutritionist who specialises in endurance sports.  In fact, Gaby had four of her athletes run at the Backyard Ultra Individual World Championship at Bigs just recently.  In this podcast Gaby discusses a whole range of BYU nutrition topics and it was awesome.

Frank Gielen - Frank the Tank

Frank qualified to run at the Backyard Ultra Individual World Championship at Bigs when he ran 67 yards for team Belgium last year.  Frank ran an incredible race at Bigs completing 97 yards which positioned him 8th in the world. 

James Blanton Post Bigs

James Blanton ran 60 yards at Clint Eastwood which qualified him to run at the World Championships at Bigs two months later.  James went on to run for 72 hours at Bigs, placing 23rd in the world and becoming only the fifth Australian to break the 72 hour mark in a Backyard Ultra.

Phil Gore - Post Bigs

Phil recently ran at the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships at  Bigs Backyard in Tennessee where he ran an incredible 100 yards.    In doing so he became the only person to have run 100 yards or more in a Backyard Ultra twice in a calendar year.

Ihor Verys

Ihor broke the world record for an assist in a Backyard Ultra just recently at Big's Backyard Ultra Individual World Championships when he ran for 107 hours.  He is one of only eight people to have broken the 100 hour barrier and he did it in only his third Backyard.

Bigs Backyard Stats Deep Dive

Tim Moffatt has been analysing the facts and figures from Bigs over the last few days and he came on do to a real deep dive into the stats and numbers behind Bigs Backyard Ultra 2023.  

Bigs 97 Yards in with Dom

Dom Halbert came on to talk about whats been going on at Bigs Backyard Ultra while we watched yard 97.

Bigs 25 Yards in with Tim & Brad

Tim Moffatt and Brad Halls came on during Yard 25 to discuss what's gone down at Big's so far.

Brendan Verrier

Brendan Verrier is an ultra runner from Alice Springs.  In May this year Brendan broke the track record at the West Macs Standley Monster over 65km.  A few months later he ran in his first Backyard Ultra at The Red Centre Wringer and finished as the Last One Standing.