Backyard Ultra Podcast

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.

Bigs Preview with Justin and Dom

Justin Wright ran on team USA at last years BYU Sat Champs and Dom Halbert completed 30 yards at Suffolk BYU this year.  They joined the podcast to preview Bigs 2023 which starts on the 21st October.  We go through each runner and give our picks and predictions.

Mark Sims

Mark has a real passion for Backyard Ultras.  He ran in his first Backyard in 2020 at MVP and has improved his PB in each running of MVP since.  Mark is a Type 1 Diabetic and it was really interesting and inspiring to hear his approach to Backyard Ultras.