100 Mile National Record Holder Amanda Nelson Wins Persistence Backyard Ultra

Starting Saturday morning, runners from two states ran the loop for hours in an attempt to win their respective backyard ultras. National record holder for 100 miles in 12 hours Amanda Nelson He won the Persistence Backyard Ultra in London, Ontario with 33 yards and just over 221 km.

At the same time, in Okotoks, Alberta, stewart wiley was last person standing I did 30 laps and 201 km in the Outrun Racing Backyard Ultra. Both winners earned the coveted silver ticket: a spot for the Canadian backyard team competing in the 2022 World Backyard Championship, satellite edition.

Backyard Ultras Follow simple rules. Runners start every hour on the hour and run a course of 6.706 km. Pace doesn’t matter as long as you finish a loop before the 1 hour cutoff and are ready to start the next loop on time.

The race continues until there is only one runner left, and whoever “assists” that runner, the last one to drop out, plays an important role. All but the winner will complete the race with a DNF (did not finish) result regardless of how many hours or days they ran.

The Persistence Backyard Ultra was in Woodstock, Ontario.native Nelsonis the first to challenge this style of racing. “For hours it got very daunting. It was mentally killing me,” she says.nelson credit Brian Bondy, an assist (completed 32 laps and dropped out on lap 33) forced her to continue. She “didn’t know she could literally have a full blown argument with herself,” Nelson adds.

72 hours world record holder Victoria Brown Dropped out of the race on lap 29 and congratulated Nelson on social media.

St. Albert, Alta. Bass Wiley wrote about his win on Instagram. “I was ready to go for 36 hours, but I was happy to finish after 30 hours.”

The World Backyard Championship event takes place in October, with the Canadian team running in BC’s first satellite world backyard championship Held in 2020, 21 countries competed in live broadcasts.Belgian Karel Sabbe 91 yards (lap) and over 610 km to win. This was the longest backyard distance he ran in Ultra at the time.