Jamestown – On August 3 at 7am to August 4 ending at 7pm. Location Pipestem Creek Trail(link is external), 31st St SE, west of Highway 281, north of Jamestown, ND. You are invited to the standard backyard ultra has a course 4 miles, 880 feet (6.7056 km) long. All runners start each lap (“yard”) together, once an hour. If you aren’t in the starting corral when the hour starts, you are eliminated (you can totally hang around and cheer for folks). The last person who can finish a yard, wins. Individual yard times don’t matter, just that each yard is completed in under an hour. We keep track of the number of yards each person does, but not how long it takes them to do it.

We’re hoping to put our own ENDracing spin on the event as much as we can. Prepare for super chill race staff–it’s your call how much pain you decide to push through.

Other races(link is external) have different courses of different difficulties, but the general rules are the same. “Most Backyard Ultras are won with between 20 and 30 yards, with low key grassroots events generally running from 12-24 hours.”