Backyard Ultra Podcast

Ollie Kacprzak

Ollie earned his spot as a 'wildcard' entry at The Masters and he impressed everyone there by running for 15 hours (yards) which means he hit the 100km milestone.  In this podcast Ollie talks about his running journey and experience at Dead Cow Gully.

Phil Gore

Just last week Phil was the Last One Standing at The Australian Masters at Dead Cow Gully.  Incredibly, Phil ran 684km in 102 hours which broke the previous world record.  In this episode Phil came on and we discussed his record breaking performance.

Jennifer Russo

Jennifer broke the Female World Record recently at Capital BYU when she ran for 74 hours covering 496km.  She has twice been a member of Team USA and is also going to be running in the Individual World Championship at Bigs later this year in October.

Shaun Collins

Shaun Collins is a runner and Event Director from New Zealand.  He is one of four people to successfully finish 'The Revenant' and set himself a personal challenge of running a 310km route around Auckland in 52 hours which he successfully completed.  Shaun is running in his 3rd Backyard Ultra in just over a week when he runs at The Australian Masters at Dead Cow Gully.

Sam Harvey

Sam is the Backyard Ultra national record holder in New Zealand with 46 yards.  He is coming to The Masters at Dead Cow Gully next month where he has his eyes set on breaking the world record before he heads to the BYU World Championships in Tennessee.

Andreas Klawitter

Andy has spent the last few years falling in love with running on his local trails and in late 2022 he ran his first 100km ultramarathon. Last week he ran for 30 hours (200km) at the BC Backyard Ultra.  In this podcast he shares his backyard ultra story.

Pam Muston

Since her ultra running journey started back in 2009, Pam has run in over 70 Ultra's.  She recently ran in her first Backyard Ultra, GUMBY, and was the Last One Standing, becoming the 2nd female in Australia to do so.

James Blanton

James ran in his second Backyard Ultra at Dead Cow Gully recently and ran an excellent race finishing as the assist with 41 yards.  In this podcast James came on to talk about how it all went down.

Brad Halls

Brad loves Backyard Ultras.  He ran his first backyard ultra at Birdys last year and went for 10 hours.  A few months later he smashed his PB by running 25 hours at Herdys.  In this podcast he explains how he did it.

Dead Cow Gully 23 with Tim, Tammy and Rowan.

Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultra is one of the most popular backyard ultra races on the Australian running calendar and its being run this weekend.  Race director Tim Walsh came on with runners Tammy Wickham and Rowan Cassidy to talk all about it.