Backyard Ultra Podcast

After an eventful year of Backyard Ultra running, Ben Nicholls, Tim Kacprzak & Mat Dube came on the podcast to talk about the 2023 BYU year.  

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.  

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

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