Backyard Ultra Podcast

Viktoria ran 34 yards at her first Backyard Ultra for team Canada at the Sat Champs in 2020.  Since then she has run a PB of 49 yards and ran for the Canadian Sat Champs team again in 2024.  As well as her impressive BYU results Viktoria also holds the Canadian 48hr, 72hr and 6 day ultra running records.

John has outstanding results across all different types of ultra running distances and formats.  His breakout backyard performance was last year when he ran 51 yards at Dead Cow Gully.  Most recently he was team Captain for the 'Flying Kiwis' at the Sat Champs and ran a new PB of 72 yards as the assist.

Phil is undoubtably one of the very best Backyard Ultra runners in the world.  Last year he broke the 100 yard barrier twice including when he ran a world record 102 at the Dead Cow Gully Masters.  Phil recently ran for team Australia at the Satellite Team World Championships finishing as the Last One Standing with 96 yards and helped guide Australia into second place in the World standings.

Scott's been running Backyard Ultra's since 2021 and has proven himself to be one of the toughest and most consistent runners out there.  He recently took things to another level  finishing as the Last One Standing when he ran 88 yards for team USA at the World Team Championships at Bigs taking home the coveted golden 'Big Dogs' coin.

The Team Backyard Ultra World Champs concluded just over a week ago so Tim Moffatt from Backyardstats came on to discuss the results, crunch the numbers and analyse the stats.  Check out Tim's website backyardstats.com

Ross McLean has been a consistently good Backyard Ultra runner since his first run at MVP back in 2022.  He's consistenly improving and was LOS at MVP in 2023, ran 35 Yards at The DCG Masters, 15 yards at Mirrim Wurnit in hellish conditions and most recently he ran in Sydney's BYU and finished as the Last One Standing with a total of 55 yards.

Tim Moffatt from Backyardstats and Dom Halbert join the podcast to preview the World Team Championship (Sat Champs) that starts this Saturday.

Stephen Parker is the author of 'There is no Finish - A Backyard Ultra Story'.  Stephen dives deep into the Backyard Ultra scene, exploring is amazing history, characters and races.  'There is no Finish' will be released on October the 12th, 2024.  For more information, including the book launch check out runningforever.au

With the Satellite World Championships just around the corner it's time to talk all about the Team Australia.  Race Director from Ultra Series Shaun Kaesler and Australian Record Holder Phil Gore came on to discuss everything to do with what's going down in the Aussie team.

Mat ran his first Backyard Ultra back in 2021 when he ran 32 yards at MVP and backed up the next year running 40 yards as the assist in an epic race behind Ben Nicholls.  Since then Mat has ran for team Australia at the 2022 Satellite World Champs and most recently he finished as the Last One Standing at GV BYU for an incredible third year in a row.