What is a Backyard Ultra?

Run 4.167 miles (6.7km).
Every hour.
Until one remains.

A Backyard Ultra is the simplest race format ever devised. Every hour, on the hour, competitors must complete a 6.7km (4.167 mile) loop and return to the start. Rest, eat, sleep if you can — but when the horn sounds, you run again.

There is no finish line. There is no set distance. The race ends when only one runner remains. Everyone else — no matter how far they've gone — is a DNF.

The Beartown Backyard Ultra brings this extraordinary format to our local community — celebrating stubbornness, togetherness, and keeping going when everything tells you to stop.