Race
Big’s Backyard Ultra uses repeated 4.167-mile loops that runners must finish inside an hour. Its world team championship links simultaneous national races, with every runner’s completed loops contributing to the country’s total.
9 TUM reports · Published coverage below
Publication history
5 editorial issues
Distinct issues per publication month. Each issue counts once.
Monthly editorial issue counts: Jul 2024: 0; Aug 2024: 0; Sep 2024: 0; Oct 2024: 2; Nov 2024: 0; Dec 2024: 0; Jan 2025: 0; Feb 2025: 0; Mar 2025: 0; Apr 2025: 0; May 2025: 1; Jun 2025: 0; Jul 2025: 0; Aug 2025: 0; Sep 2025: 0; Oct 2025: 0; Nov 2025: 0; Dec 2025: 0; Jan 2026: 0; Feb 2026: 0; Mar 2026: 0; Apr 2026: 0; May 2026: 0; Jun 2026: 0; Jul 2026: 0; Aug 2026: 0; Sep 2026: 0; Oct 2026: 2; Nov 2026: 0.
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At 7:27 a.m. CDT on October 20, after 72 completed yards, the provisional team board showed Australia ahead of the U.S., Japan and Belgium. Dead Cow Gully and Backyard Ultra Podcast questioned the U.S. daytime course change. Spain’s rescheduling date and restart scoring were unestablished. Theo Von crewed Mark Dowdle for one yard.
TUM previewed the October 17, 7 a.m. CDT World Team Championship start, hourly 4.167-mile loops, team scoring and the planned worldwide broadcast.
Mark Dowdle and Terry Muffins traded course-related satire before Big’s. The published account mentions Phil Gore’s fundraising; it does not establish a new result.
Run Mountain Peaks revisited Bubba’s Backyard from a day-three pacer’s perspective ahead of Big’s, including technical courses versus flat speed.
Their 2025 Belgium performances qualified Wróbel and Vandekerckhove for that October’s Big’s championship.
Event date: October 2025 · TUM publication: May 2, 2025
TUM used Big’s Backyard Ultra World Team Championships as the umbrella wording for its 2024 report on the Belgian trio and Megan Eckert; this does not place the Belgian trio at the Big’s Tennessee venue.
Event date: 2024 · TUM publication: October 29, 2024
TUM described the 4.16-mile hourly-loop format and used Lewis’s prior-year 108-hour record as context. The hour-82 global update remained unfinished.
TUM provided a live leaderboard, livestream, updates and social links for following the then-ongoing backyard championship. These are dated following resources, not a later result or proof that a live service is still available.
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At 7:27 a.m. CDT on October 20, after 72 completed yards, the provisional team board showed Australia ahead of the U.S., Japan and Belgium. Dead Cow Gully and Backyard Ultra Podcast questioned the U.S. daytime course change. Spain’s rescheduling date and restart scoring were unestablished. Theo Von crewed Mark Dowdle for one yard.
SourceConnection in this dated account
At 7:27 a.m. CDT on October 20, after 72 completed yards, the provisional team board showed Australia ahead of the U.S., Japan and Belgium. Dead Cow Gully and Backyard Ultra Podcast questioned the U.S. daytime course change. Spain’s rescheduling date and restart scoring were unestablished. Theo Von crewed Mark Dowdle for one yard.
SourceConnection in this dated account
At 7:27 a.m. CDT on October 20, after 72 completed yards, the provisional team board showed Australia ahead of the U.S., Japan and Belgium. Dead Cow Gully and Backyard Ultra Podcast questioned the U.S. daytime course change. Spain’s rescheduling date and restart scoring were unestablished. Theo Von crewed Mark Dowdle for one yard.
SourceHistorical 108-hour benchmark credited to Lewis
As this October 22 issue was written, TUM reported 19 runners from five countries remaining at hour 82, with 336+ miles stated in the source. This was an interim championship snapshot, not the final outcome. Harvey Lewis’s 108-hour record from the previous year was the historical comparison.
SourceFacts above link directly to their sources. Published TUM dates and public-source check dates describe different things.
Public background sources checked October 18, 2026. The selection contains 127 published issues.
The published team standings are a dated provisional snapshot. Spain’s restart date and scoring method were not established in this issue.
The October 20team-board entry is a dated provisional snapshot. The later global team result is covered separately under Backyard Satellite Championships; no race/series identity merge is assumed.
The October 20 race snapshot remains provisional and dated. The October 23 final international team result belongs to the separate Backyard Satellite Championships profile; it is not attached here as a race result.
Background context from one original public source. TUM’s dated reporting appears below.
This is a limited background snapshot, checked October 18, 2026. Source publication dates and event dates are shown separately.
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Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
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Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Published article, 2025-05-02T15:19:48.171Z. Public original captured at 2026-10-28T02:39:04.329Z and projected to reviewed article text; no publishing-repository text pin is claimed.
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Published article, 2024-10-29T20:40:19.446Z. Public original captured at 2026-10-30T10:54:29.268Z and projected to reviewed article text; no publishing-repository text pin is claimed.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Published article, 2024-10-22T21:38:47.082Z. Public original captured at 2026-10-30T10:54:29.263Z and projected to reviewed article text; no publishing-repository text pin is claimed.
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Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
Exact public destination in the published item. The archived TUM issue establishes the historical attribution; this is not a fresh verification of the destination’s current content.
