Free. You can start with nothing.
One 4.167-mile loop every hour, on the hour, until one runner is left. Last runner standing claims the Bronze Ticket. Complete the loop each hour; miss it and you are out.
Two loops inside one entry: a day loop on pristine single-track and groomed grass trails, and a night loop on grass trails and country roads. The race page also names a stretch called the Tunnel of Trees. No elevation figure is published for the backyard.
A backyard ultra at Willenborg Woods, 149 acres of maintained trails outside Charleston, Illinois. One 4.167-mile loop every hour, on the hour, with a day loop on single-track and grass trails and a night loop on grass trails and country roads. The last runner still going takes the Bronze Ticket toward Big Dog's Backyard Ultra World Championship.
Nobody has been out there with a camera or a microphone yet. A gap means nobody has found it, not that it is not out there. Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send us the link.
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This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.
Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.
We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.
We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.
Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.
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What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.
I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.
