Backyard Ultra Podcast

Justin Wright ran on team USA at last years BYU Sat Champs and Dom Halbert completed 30 yards at Suffolk BYU this year.  They joined the podcast to preview Bigs 2023 which starts on the 21st October.…

Mark has a real passion for Backyard Ultras.  He ran in his first Backyard in 2020 at MVP and has improved his PB in each running of MVP since.  Mark is a Type 1 Diabetic and it was really interestin…

Adam is the man behind the TV show 'Search4hurt'.  Season 4 of Search4hurt is going to be ultra exciting as it is going to feature its contestants running at Mirrim Wurnit Backyard Ultra in March.  T…

Robbie is a race director and runner.  He is the main man behind North Vic Backyard Ultra's and just over a week ago saw the second year running of his Backyard Ultra in Shepparton 'GV Last Man Stand…

When it comes to running ultra's Brick has almost done it all.  He is adding race director to his running CV at the moment as he gears up to host Sydney's first Backyard Ultra, the inaugural 'Bricks …

Margie is the Australian female Backyard Ultra record holder, she broke the record last year when she ran 47 yards for team Australia at the Satellite World Championships.  Just recently she was the …

Harvey Lewis ran his first Backyard Ultra at Bigs in 2017.  He was the Last One Standing at The World Championships at Bigs in 2021 when he ran 85 yards, which broke the world record at the time.  Ha…

Hendrik was the Last One Standing for team Germany at the Satellite World Champs last year, earning himself a golden ticket to Bigs.  Also, he was recently the assist at Suffolk Backyard Ultra when h…

After Patto ran 34 yards at Birdys Backyard Ultra a couple of weeks ago, Kevin 'Big Kev' Matthews came on to the podcast and turned the tables by asking Patto all the questions.

The inaugural running of Reds Backyard Ultra was held just over a week ago.  Barry Keem was the Last One Standing running 35 yards and Red Barnett was the race director.  We had a great time talking …

Chris has run in five Backyard Ultra's and was part of the Australian team at the Satellite World Champs last year.  This weekend he is running at Birdys Backyard Ultra.  As well as running in the ra…

Miguel is a race director from Venezuela and he is responsible for introducing the Backyard Ultra format to the country.  So far Miguel and his team have organised 5 Backyard Ultra's including the Ve…

Liv and Kirsty are close friends and training partners from the 'Whitsundays' region in Northern QLD.  They ran at the Australian Backyard Masters and were the last two females standing with Liv runn…

Aaron (63 yards), Tim (55 yards) and Johan (43 yards) all ran PB's at the Australian Backyard Masters at Dead Cow Gully.  They spent a lot of the race working together and formed a bond that made the…

Ollie earned his spot as a 'wildcard' entry at The Masters and he impressed everyone there by running for 15 hours (yards) which means he hit the 100km milestone.  In this podcast Ollie talks about h…

Just last week Phil was the Last One Standing at The Australian Masters at Dead Cow Gully.  Incredibly, Phil ran 684km in 102 hours which broke the previous world record.  In this episode Phil came o…

Jennifer broke the Female World Record recently at Capital BYU when she ran for 74 hours covering 496km.  She has twice been a member of Team USA and is also going to be running in the Individual Wor…

Shaun Collins is a runner and Event Director from New Zealand.  He is one of four people to successfully finish 'The Revenant' and set himself a personal challenge of running a 310km route around Auc…

Sam is the Backyard Ultra national record holder in New Zealand with 46 yards.  He is coming to The Masters at Dead Cow Gully next month where he has his eyes set on breaking the world record before …

Andy has spent the last few years falling in love with running on his local trails and in late 2022 he ran his first 100km ultramarathon. Last week he ran for 30 hours (200km) at the BC Backyard Ultr…