Backyard Ultra Podcast

Dom Halbert

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dom ran in his first Backyard Ultra in 2021 at Suffolk.  Since then he has run many more, including five this year alone.  In Dom's most recent Back...

Backyard Ultra year 2025 in Review

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Nicholls, Mat Dube and Tim Kacprzak join Patto to review the BYU year of 2025.  They discuss their picks for Race of the Year, Single Best Perfor...

Simon 'The Roach' Macauley

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon absolutely loves Backyard Ultra's.  Since 2023 Simon has run in 5 Backyard ultras, three of which were run this year.  He recently broke throu...

Stephanie Rosebaugh

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie has been running Backyard Ultra's for less than 12 months and she's already proven herself to be a force in the format.  She ran 38 yards a...

Merlin Gammon - Wizardofrun

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Merlin ran his first Backyard Ultra last year when he ran impressively to complete 30 yards at Wild Dog Backyard Ultra.  Merlin is currently more tha...

Ned Phillips

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ned ran 22 yards in his first Backyard Ultra in 2020 when he ran for team Singapore at the Sat Champs.  Last year Ned finished as the Last One Standi...

Jayden McCormack

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jayden ran his first Ultra at The Guzzler 100 in 2022.  He has run The Guzzler every year since and this year he ran it almost 10 hours faster than i...

Lily Lu

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lily Lu is an artist, author and film maker who started her running journey three years ago and has fallen in love with Backyard Ultra's.  So far in ...

All the Stats from Big's 2025

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Moffatt and Patto dive deep into all the stats behind the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships in Big's Backyard, Tennessee. 2025.

Dan Camac - 93 Yards

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last year at the Sat Champs Dan ran 75 gutsy yards for team Australia, which qualified him to run at the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships...

Phil Gore - The GOAT

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just over a week ago, the Backyard Ultra Individual World Championships took place at 'Bigs Backyard' in Tennessee, attracting the sport's very best o...

Teaser - Jimmy B + White Kenyan Ep 4

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

**THIS IS A 15 MINUTE TEASER OF JIMMY B + WHITE KENYAN EPISODE 3 - THE FULL 1 HOUR 34 MINUTE VERSION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH BACKYARD ULTRA PODCAST'S PAT...

Teaser - Jimmy B + White Kenyan Ep 3

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

**THIS IS A 15 MINUTE TEASER OF JIMMY B + WHITE KENYAN EPISODE 3 - THE FULL 1 HOUR 29 MINUTE VERSION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH BACKYARD ULTRA PODCAST'S PAT...

Luke Slater

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke ran his first Backyard Ultra last year at MVP where he completed 12 yards.  Since that first Backyard experience Luke has been focussed on impro...

Bigs 2025 Preview

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patto, Dom Halbert and Ihor Verys preview the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships 2025.  Including insights about each runner, predictions ...

Mark Dowdle

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021 Mark ran his first LOS race at WausaUltra Backyard and completed 21 yards.  Mark has fallen in love with the Backyard format and has made hug...

Dubes & Pete - Post GV

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mathieu 'Dubes' Dube is one of the OG's of Backyard Ultra's in Australia, breaking 40 yards back in 2022.  This year has definitely been a breakout y...

Teaser - Jimmy B + White Kenyan Ep 2

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

**THIS IS A 15 MINUTE TEASER OF JIMMY B + WHITE KENYAN EPISODE 2 - THE FULL 1 HOUR 37 MINUTE VERSION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH BACKYARD ULTRA PODCAST'S PAT...

Macee Latimer

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Macee is a runner from New Zealand who ran her first Backyard Ultra in May at Best Dam Backyard.  She finished as the Last One Standing with 43 yards...

Hendrik Boury - Bound for Bigs

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hendrik is returning to Bigs Backyard next month to run in the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships after a heartbreaking DNF in 2023.  Last...

Josh & Kyle - Lumina Productions

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Josh and Kyle were at Dead Cow Gully this year following Harvey Lewis's journey and capturing it all on film.  It was great to relive the epic record...

Holly Ranson - 61 yards

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Holly ran her first Backyard Ultra in 2022 at Hysterical Carnage where she completed 30 yards before the race was stopped.  Just recently she ran at ...

Shaun Kaesler with Big Announcement

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shaun from Ultra series came on to talk all about MelbOURne Frontyard Ultra, including a big announcement in regards to next year's race. Signup to Me...

Jimmy B + White Kenyan: Road to Big's Ep 1.

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Blanton and Ryan Crawford are off to Tennessee for the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships at Bigs in October.  This is the first of ...

Colin Moulden

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Colin ran his first Backyard Ultra in May at No Time to Die where he ran 25 yards.  Last weekend Colin fronted up at Birdys and he had an incredible ...

Jashy - 100 Yards

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Ash has rapidly made his way up the Backyard Ultra ranks since his 57 yard performance at Reds Last year.  At Dead Cow Gully recently Jashy ...

Simon McLean

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon had a huge 2024 running Backyard Ultra's.  He qualified for team New Zealand with a 51 yard performance at Kings and he backed up at the Sat Ch...

Phil Gore - 119 Yards World Record

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Gore broke the Backyard Ultra world record at Dead Cow Gully by running 102 yards with Sam Harvey as the assist in 2023.  Just over a week ago D...

Tim Walsh - Dead Cow 2025

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dead Cow Gully (Masters) is kicking off this weekend showcasing some of the best Backyard Ultra runners in the world.  Race Mastermind and Director T...

Barry Thomas

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly everyone who has run an ultra in Victoria would have met Barry in his sports beer marquee at some point.  In the last couple of years Barry ha...

Rose Fuller

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rose ran her first Backyard Ultra last year at GV where she ran 19 yards.  After GV Rose decided that she really wanted to commit to the BYU format a...

Lukasz Wrobel

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lukasz grabbed the attention of the Backyard Ultra world last year with his amazing Last One Standing performance at Suffolk BYU where he ran 88 yards...

Kendall Picado Fallas

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kendall ran his first Backyard Ultra last year at Sydney's and completed 18 yards.  This year he fronted up to Sydney's again and ran an incredible r...

MelbOURne Frontyard - Nicholls & Dube

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022 Ben Nicholls and Mat Dube were the first to take a Victorian Backyard Ultra into the 40's.  Last week they were at it again, being the first ...

Jonathan Ash - Jashy

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jashy burst onto the Australian BYU scene last year when he ran 57 yards at Reds to qualify for team Australia.  Since then he has proven himself to ...

Tim Moffatt

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tim is a familiar face in the BYU world through his crewing, running and providing statistical analysis.  Tim was always planning for 2025 to be the ...

Mitch McInnes

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mitch ran 32 yards in his first Backyard Ultra last year at I'm Still Standing BYU and then 21 yards at Clint Eastwood.  After some fine tuning of hi...

Lizzie Gatherer

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lizzie ran her first Backyard Ultra in 2021 where she completed 19 yards.  She spent the next three years running many ultra's up to 200 miles till s...

Iain Bethune

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Iain Bethune's first Backyard Ultra was at the Cow Shed BYU in 2022 where he ran 27 yards.  Iain and his wife Julie are believed to be the only Husba...

Dave Kwiatkowski

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dave ran his first Backyard Ultra at Andy's BYU in 2021.  He has been consistently improving since then, running 37 yards at Capital and 52 yards at ...

Duncan Nichols

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan embarked head first into his running journey after discovering the Backyard Ultra format in early 2024 where he crewed for a friend at MVP.  H...

The Crow & Farms

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon 'The Crow' Lee and Dan 'Farms' Farmer have been running together in the Ardeer Trotters for just over a year now.  Over the last couple of mo...

Intenseatfit - Gaby Villa

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gaby has been fuelling athletes for 10 years, working with many of the worlds best Backyard Ultra Runners.  It was great being able to have Gaby back...

Sean Lyons

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sean ran his first backyard ultra at Dead Cow Gully back in 2022 when he ran 30 yards.  Since then he has increased his PB to 37 and just recently fi...

Frank Gielen - 110 Yards

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Frank was part of the all conquering Belgium Backyard Ultra team that finished on top of the world standings at the World Satellite Team Champs in 202...

2024 BYU year in review

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Kacprzak, Mat Dube and Ben Nicholls join the podcast to relive the Backyard Ultra year that was 2024.

Clayton Talbot

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clayton loves Backyard Ultra's, he's run in three and his best result is currently 25 yards which he ran at I'm Still Standing BYU earlier this year. ...

Vic Owens - The Happy Runner

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vic has been running ultras since 2017 and ran in her first Backyard Ultra at Rasselbock in 2023 where she completed 30 yards.  Since then Vic has ru...

Sarah Perry & Alex Sweet

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Perry was the last one standing at the Sat Champs for Team UK when she ran 59 yards, breaking the UK female record. Alex Sweet also had a remark...

Viktoria Brown

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Viktoria ran 34 yards at her first Backyard Ultra for team Canada at the Sat Champs in 2020.  Since then she has run a PB of 49 yards and ran for the...

John Bayne

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John has outstanding results across all different types of ultra running distances and formats.  His breakout backyard performance was last year when...

Phil Gore - Post Sat Champs

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Phil is undoubtably one of the very best Backyard Ultra runners in the world.  Last year he broke the 100 yard barrier twice including when he ran a ...

Scott Snell

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott's been running Backyard Ultra's since 2021 and has proven himself to be one of the toughest and most consistent runners out there.  He recently...

Team World Champs recap with Backyardstats

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Team Backyard Ultra World Champs concluded just over a week ago so Tim Moffatt from Backyardstats came on to discuss the results, crunch the numbe...

Ross McLean - Sydneys Last One Standing

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ross McLean has been a consistently good Backyard Ultra runner since his first run at MVP back in 2022.  He's consistenly improving and was LOS at MV...

World Team Championship Preview with Tim & Dom

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Moffatt from Backyardstats and Dom Halbert join the podcast to preview the World Team Championship (Sat Champs) that starts this Saturday.

Stephen Parker - There is no Finish

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Parker is the author of 'There is no Finish - A Backyard Ultra Story'.  Stephen dives deep into the Backyard Ultra scene, exploring is amazin...

Aussie Team Preview with Shaun & Phil

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the Satellite World Championships just around the corner it's time to talk all about the Team Australia.  Race Director from Ultra Series Shaun ...

Mathieu Dube

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mat ran his first Backyard Ultra back in 2021 when he ran 32 yards at MVP and backed up the next year running 40 yards as the assist in an epic race b...

Peak2Soon takeover with Brent and Patto

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Ford, from Peak2Soon Podcast came on to host this episode and interview Patto, who had a lot to get off his chest after his 38 yards and assist ...

Ryan Metivier

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan ran his first Backyard Ultra in 2017 at his local race 'Last Man Standing Ultramarathon' where he ran 19 yards as the assist.  Since then Ryan h...

Dan Camac

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So far in 2024 Dan has finished as the assist at Mirrim Wurnit and ran 40 yards at No Time To Die.  Dan's biggest race will be in October, when he wi...

Narchi Finnila

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Narchi started running Backyard Ultra's last year when she debut'd at Clint Eastwood by running an impressive 34 yards and finishing as the first plac...

Chris Martin - Birdys LOS

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris ran an amazing race at Birdys last year, running 33 yards while completing a piece of artwork between loops.  Just over a week ago Chris ran at...

Jonathan Ash

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jono ran his first Backyard Ultra just over 12 months ago when he ran 28 yards at Red's.  Since then he has gone from strength to strength, finishing...

Helen Waterworth

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last year Helen broke 24 hours in three Backyard Ultras, including her PB of 31 yards at Arrowtown.  This year Helen and her Partner Chris have organ...

Ben Hirst

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ben ran 28 yards in Australia's first ever Backyard Ultra back in 2019 at Mirrim Wurnit.  Since then he has finished as the Last One Standing at MVP,...

Anthony Kerr-Taylor

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony ran 11 yards in his first Backyard Ultra at Riverhead Relaps in 2021.  Since then he has ran in four more Backyards and improved each and eve...

Sam Harvey - Cloudlander

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Harvey is right up there with the very best Backyard Ultra runners on Earth.  Last year at The DCG Masters he ran 101 yards as the assist and the...

Brandon Lee Grech

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, Brandon dipped his toes into the world of Backyard Ultras at the Shepparton 'GV BYU', where he successfully completed 32 yards. Building on...

Levi Yoder

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Levi ran 37 yards in his first Backyard Ultra in 2022 when he was the Last One Standing at Bob's Big Timber Backyard.  He has run five Backyard Ultra...

Jacs & Jamie - Red Dirt BYU

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Next weekend, the Red Dirt Backyard Ultra will be held for the first time in Karratha, Western Australia, as a Bigs affiliated event. Jamie Oborne, a ...

Ryan Crawford

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Crawford is one of Australia's best and most experienced Backyard Ultra Runners.  In 2023 his best result was when he ran 60 yards at Clint East...

Paul Pratt

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 is the year of the Backyard Ultra for Paul.  So far this year Paul has already run in three Backyards Ultras, MVP, Herdys and Dead Cow Gully.  ...

Stephen Cousins - Film My Run

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen is the creator & host of the youtube channel 'Film My Run', which is a great resource for all things running.  This Saturday Suffolk Back...

Megan Eckert

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Megan ran in her first Backyard Ultra in January at Saguaro Showdown and proved herself to be a natural at the format.  Not only did she finish as th...

Tim Walsh - Dead Cow Gully 2024

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In June last year Dead Cow Gully found itself the talk of the Backyard Ultra World when Phil Gore ran a world record 102 yards.  It's exciting to see...

Aaron Young - Does Ultra

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron is going from strength to strength as an endurance athlete and BYU runner.  Last year he came 18th in the World at the Backyard Ultra World Cha...

Johan Botha

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Johan ran his first Backyard ultra at Hysterical Carnage in 2021.  He has run in five backyards since and was the assist in his last two.  Johan's m...

Tim Kacprzak

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim has had an amazing 12 months of running in Backyard Ultras.  Last year he ran 51 yards at Herdys, 55 yards at The Masters at Dead Cow Gully and t...

Adam Keen

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Keen ran in New Zealands first ever Backyard Ultra back in 2019 where he finished as the assist.  He has run in six backyard ultras since, inclu...

Eric - Rasselbock BYU

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Keeler is the man behind 'Rasselbock Running' and organise's a whole range of running events in the UK.  This weekend is the second year of the ...

Joel Sexton

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joel is a familiar face to many around the Backyard Ultra scene as a member Tim Kacprzak's crew.  Joel is proving himself to be more than a handy run...

Rhys Williams - The Rolling Pin

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rhys ran in three Backyard Ultra's in 2023, running over 30 yards twice.  He ran 37 yards at Dead Cow Gully and in October he finished as the joint L...

Rowan Cassidy - We've Gotcha BYU

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rowan loves running and has raced in QLD, NSW, VIC and New Zealand.  He has run in three Backyard Ultra's, most recently at The Masters where he comp...

Jon Noll

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jon has been running ultra's since 2008.  His last five races have all been Backyard Ultra's and his results are outstanding, finishing as the LOS at...

Gemma Gore

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Gore has more experience crewing at backyard ultra's than pretty much anyone.  She has crewed for Phil at all 10 of his backyard ultra's, inclu...

Charles Bosveld

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles is an experienced backyard ultra runner, having completed six events since his debut at Birdys in 2020. At his most recent race, Hysterical Ca...

Thorleifur Thorleifsson - Thor

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thor currently holds the Iceland backyard ultra record with 50 yards which he ran at the The Race of Champions in Germany last year.  Thor also ran a...

2023 BYU year in review

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After an eventful year of Backyard Ultra running, Ben Nicholls, Tim Kacprzak & Mat Dube came on the podcast to talk about the 2023 BYU year.  

Rob & Jac Parsons

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Parsons is one of the best Backyard Ultra runners in the world, proven by his top 12 performance at Bigs in October when he completed 84 yards to ...

Gaby Villa - intenseatfit

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gaby is a dietitian and sports nutritionist who specialises in endurance sports.  In fact, Gaby had four of her athletes run at the Backyard Ultra In...

Frank Gielen - Frank the Tank

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Frank qualified to run at the Backyard Ultra Individual World Championship at Bigs when he ran 67 yards for team Belgium last year.  Frank ran an inc...

James Blanton Post Bigs

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

James Blanton ran 60 yards at Clint Eastwood which qualified him to run at the World Championships at Bigs two months later.  James went on to run fo...

Phil Gore - Post Bigs

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Phil recently ran at the Individual Backyard Ultra World Championships at  Bigs Backyard in Tennessee where he ran an incredible 100 yards.    In d...

Ihor Verys

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ihor broke the world record for an assist in a Backyard Ultra just recently at Big's Backyard Ultra Individual World Championships when he ran for 107...

Bigs Backyard Stats Deep Dive

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Moffatt has been analysing the facts and figures from Bigs over the last few days and he came on do to a real deep dive into the stats and numbers...

Bigs 97 Yards in with Dom

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dom Halbert came on to talk about whats been going on at Bigs Backyard Ultra while we watched yard 97.

Bigs 25 Yards in with Tim & Brad

22 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Moffatt and Brad Halls came on during Yard 25 to discuss what's gone down at Big's so far.

Brendan Verrier

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brendan Verrier is an ultra runner from Alice Springs.  In May this year Brendan broke the track record at the West Macs Standley Monster over 65km. ...