![]() ![]() But you do it again, and again, and again. "It's like being punched in the face," chuckles Cantrell from his kitchen via Zoom. The backyard is Cantrell and wife Sandra's sprawling farm in Bell Buckle, rural Tennessee, where runners complete a loop of the woods every hour during the day, before switching to an out-and-back route on the road at night for safety reasons.Īnd 'ultra' is surely the most apt title for a race in which someone can run for 300 miles yet still be classed as a Did Not Finish. Welcome to Big Dog's Backyard Ultra, the toughest - and weirdest - race you've never heard of.īig Dog is race organiser Gary Cantrell's pet bulldog, who spends most of his time snoozing under a table at the start-finish line, barely lifting a droopy eyelid as dozens of sleep-deprived runners shuffle past him day and night. The current record - held by a Belgian dentist - is 75 hours, or 312 miles. ![]() The trouble is, some runners can keep going for quite a long time. It's hard to say exactly how long you'll be running for - because this race only finishes when there's one person left standing. What if you had to do it every hour for the next two or three days? How about the hour after that? The legs might be feeling it by now.
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