Big Dog's Backyard Ultra - 3 left, have gone 325 miles, running for 78 hours - can someone run until they die?

If I was an untrarunner this would be like the Super Bowl. But I'm not wasting my time seeing who can exercise the most. They should have to drink two beers every hour. Add some spice to it. Anyways, these guys remaining are savage AF. Pretty impressive.

I wouldn't be surprised.

Laz had already one women involved in a heavy accident where she lost her leg, in one of his races.

It's better to have all these insane people in one place like this, rather than spread throughout the country.

I heard that it happened to some Greek guy a while back.

Except I have read that the story of Pheidippides is not true, no such event is recorded in Herodotus. It was apparently the poem by Robert Browning that inspired the creation of the marathon in the modern Olympic games. However, it is a good story.

All three have now done 79 loops (79 hours) and 329.1 miles... Mori was looking pretty rough on that last one, not sure how much he's got left in him.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""""""'"--';"- wrote:

If I was an untrarunner this would be like the Super Bowl. But I'm not wasting my time seeing who can exercise the most. They should have to drink two beers every hour. Add some spice to it. Anyways, these guys remaining are savage AF. Pretty impressive.

Admit it you want them to spin a wheel each hour to see what challenge they get. Run laps, in a cage with a tiger, blind hurdles. Possibilities are endless.

81 hours, 333.4 miles and they are now down to 2 - Chris and Harvey.

So this is record-setting territory now. What happens if both fail on the same lap?

Three cigarettes in sequence spell out some sort of decision?

They all have to smoke a carton of cigarettes.

they take turns hitting each other in the shin with a ball peen hammer.

Does this beat the Mr Beast (youtuber) challenge where like a hundred people had to stay in a circle for the longest time and the last one remaining got a million bucks? I bet whoever wins this race could have won that challenge too.

Come on, man! Fauci worked to find a cure to AIDS and has advised us wisely to social distance, wear masks, and use a very safe vaccine. If you're going to compare him to Hitler, you're off your rocker.

I always say the same thing about Trumpers. Texas seems like best place.

How the heck can you DNF after "2 yards" at this thing? Someone did, I missed the name, but come on, you're going to this idiotic thing, this is like tripping over the gate at the other insane (one of the other insane things) this Laz dude comes up with.

Did Seth 'run' this? Anton? Jim? Sage?

This dude Harvey Lewis is finishing up hour 85, which will give him the win. That’s mental. A record for this event.

DNF after 2 yards: she got lost on the trail portion and timed out (didn't make it back within the time limit for the lap)

What I love about this race is that some normal schoolteacher from Ohio (and his racing buddies) did some superhuman things. Say what you will about the average pace, or ultras being walkathons, but this win makes Harvey one of the toughest endurance racers in the country. (And I use him as just an example, because Chris's effort in second was astonishing; with the abuse his body took, I wrote him off more than 14 hours before he actually finished.) It's amazing what a mental and physical feat this is, and Harvey is just some (tough as freaking nails) guy who needed to get a substitute teacher so he could come race.

Kudos.