The Trail Snails

In this episode we spoke with Hollie Shield, a Bundaberg-based, badass Trail Runner who recently smashed her backyard ultra PB, successfully completing 25 yards at Dead Cow Gully!

Hollie chats to us about her training, her race and how the mind is key to achieving your goals!

It’s a long episode! Strap in!

The week that was!! We recall our races from the 2025 Dead Cow Gully backyard masters, as well as many others - including our much requested pre race tent chat (aka the 6-man-10-min giggle fest)

It’s race week! Dead Cow Gully is around the corner and the Snails chat last minute preparations for our races. We go through a few of the top dogs - the elite men and woman who could be set for some huge totals this year. And of course our new favourite segment - Duncan’s Conundrum!

Good luck to everyone running and crewing at the Gully! Make sure you come say hello and grab a Heaps Normal beer from the boys!

The Road to Dead Cow Gully - part 2!

More wisdom bombs are being dropped on us as we are joined by some more huge guests!

If you are running a backyard ultra then you are crazy to not listen to this one!

Thanks to all the contributors…

The Road to Dead Cow Gully - part 1!

The fellas get some awesome nuggets of wisdom ahead of the 2025 Masters from a range of backyard legends, including World Record holders and crew wizards!

Maybe you’ll find some piece of advice to implement at DCG or at your next Backyard event!

Get your note pad out for this one peeps..

Thanks to all the contributors for helping us out with their time and knowledge!

Toby Steele is a Brisbane-based ultra runner who just ran the 2025 Cocodona 250 in Arizona USA! Toby talks us through his journey toward making it into the race, his preparations for it and of course how the 111 hours panned out for him in a race that throws everything at its participants!

Toby’s instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/tobysteele__?igsh=Yzd0NnYxYnR0ZHVw

Cocodona instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/cocodona250?igsh=MXFiaGxxdWg1a3Frbw==

The Chase - Cocodona 2024 documentary

https://youtu.be/k0HkYULFVvA?si=7Ajo_uYQzT41Jrsu

The Pointy End - Cocodona 2025 documentary

https://youtu.be/N-LVmZdrJuc?si=MCYX3jM1ScJVPdTk

Episode 3 of our “Road to Dead Cow Gully”

We were lucky enough to chat with Dead Cow Gully race director - Tim Walsh! Set on the Walsh

Family property in Nanango QLD, Dead Cow Gully is arguably one of the premier Backyard Ultra events in the world, and the previous Masters having set a world record by Phil Gore at 102 yards.

Set for a huge event at this years Masters, Tim chats about previous events as well as what we can expect from this years edition - we also chat the recent world record set at the Legends Backyard Ultra in Belgium.

This is a must for anyone heading to the gully this June! Enjoy!

2023 Backyard Masters YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/sTPf4MmPw2E?si=1AIZ_8iX7zXAHCqV

2022 Dead Cow Gully YouTube video

https://youtu.be/mKX9rASYUQM?si=zcC_3hxSCFkpEuDV

Episode 2 of our Road to Dead Cow Gully series!

We chat with personal trainer and Backyard Ultra runner Darren Chandler from Perth, Western Australia.

Darren tells us how he got into fitness, boxing and running, we chat about his recent results at Herdys Backyard Ultra and looking ahead to Dead Cow gully 2025 - and we deep dive into the mental resilience it takes to succeed at a Backyard! + lots more!

If you have an endurance event coming up this episode should give you plenty of inspiration and tools you can use !

Check out Daz on:

https://www.instagram.com/darrenchandlerfitness

https://www.pwrfitness.com.au/about

Happy Birthday to the Escargot show! We are officially 1 year old!

To celebrate, we wrapped up the recent Sydney’s Backyard Ultra and the Gil’s Galavant Backyard Ultra, including a world first involving a neck pillow.

We are in full backyard mode, our road to Dead Cow Gully Masters 2025 series has begun!

The weekend that wasn’t! With the Yandina 5-0 postponed due to heavy rainfalls the Snails still made it an event to remember! We chat about our wet and wild weekend and looking ahead to Dead Cow Gully Backyard Masters..

If you want to sign up and run Yandina 5-0 on its new date - June 14 2025 check out Run QLD!

https://www.runqld.com.au/yandina-50

12km, 21km, 36km and 50km distances available!!

Great event on some epic trails, and it starts and finishes at a brewery!!