What is a backyard ultra?

A 6.706 km loop, run every hour on the hour, until one runner remains. No finish line, no fixed distance. The last runner standing is the only finisher — everyone else records a DNF.

Do I need to be an ultrarunner to enter?

No. Backyard 4 is designed as a first ultra. If you can run 6.7 km in an hour, four times, you're in the game.

Where does the 2026–27 season run?

Six chapters: Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Same loop distance, same rules, same clock in every city.

Through the chapter page for each city. Registration opens city by city — the community hears the dates first.

What is the Indian backyard record?

52 yards — 52 loops, 52 hours, roughly 348 km — set by Sunil Sharma at Big's Backyard Ultra in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, in October 2024 — the longest last-one-standing run by any Indian. Ashwini Ganapathi holds the women's mark at 28 yards, set at our Bengaluru chapter.

What happens if I DNF?

You take home the exact number of the loop where you stopped, and a DNF memento. In a backyard, that's not failure — it's the receipt of a real attempt.

Yes. Walking is strategy, not weakness. Many strong backyard runners walk parts of every loop.

THE WOMEN’S BACKYARD ULTRA · PUNE · 9 JANUARY 2027

LAST ONE STANDING

A backyard ultra for women. One loop, one hour, one bell, until one is left standing. We are finding the limitless women.

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FINAL RESULT · AHMEDABAD CHAPTER16 yards · 107.3 km · 68 started

FULL RESULT

NEXT CHAPTERCHANDIGARH · 14 Nov 2026

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THE NATIONAL MARK52

Sunil Sharma — 52 hours on the clock, one loop after another, until one remained.

October 2024 · 348.7 km on foot — still the national mark.

Ashwini Ganapathi — 28 hours, same clock, same rule: last one standing wins.

≈ 187.6 km on foot.

SEE THE RECORD BOOK

Every hour, a bell rings.

Answer it, or you’re out.

Last one standing wins.

FIRST BELL RINGS IN

When it rings, you run. Miss the corral and you're out. That's the whole contract.

FIND YOUR CHAPTER

A DNF IS NOT A FAILURE. IT'S A RECEIPT.

One finishes. The rest earn a DNF.

Nothing is lost. All is learnt.

THE TRUTH ABOUT DNF

In a backyard, all but one runner records a DNF — including most of the strongest people you'll ever share a corral with. You leave with the exact loop you reached and a memento stamped with that number. It's proof you went looking. Wear it loud.

Our most celebrated finish so far? A couple in Ahmedabad who DNF’d together.

TOE THE LINE

THE SEASON

THE 2026–27 SEASON

Six cities. Same loop, same rules, same clock. The season runs from the Sahyadris to the sea.

FINISHED

19 Sept 2026 · Tukai Camping, Shindewadi

TRIAL RUNS

Never run a loop? Come try the clock.

A backyard ultra is unlike any race you have run — the hourly bell changes everything. So before you enter a chapter, come to a trial run: a free, informal session where you run the 6.706 km loop, on the hour, for as long as you like. No bib, no pressure, no finish line. Just you and one more.

What it is

A handful of runners, the real loop, and the real clock — run one lap or ten. A rehearsal for the ritual, not a race.

Why we run them

The format has to be felt, not explained. One trial and you know whether the hourly reset is your kind of madness.

How to join

Trials pop up in host cities before each chapter. Watch this space or the community — RSVP, then just show up in your shoes.

SEE TRIAL RUNS

One loop. One hour.

The last runner standing.

India’s hardest, most human race.

THE FILM

Watch the film that started it all.

Plays right here — full screen, with sound.

POSTCARDS FROM THE BACKYARD

One story from every backyard.

A backyard sends everyone home with a DNF — save one. So we keep every chapter’s story, filed by hand, the way finishers were once handed a postcard at the line. None of it is lost to the clock.

FROM THE BACKYARD

Meghraj Sharma answered the bell 16 times. Dr Ronak was the last to fall — 15 loops, then home. One story from Ahmedabad Chapter 2026.

Ahmedabad ChapterREAD THE STORY

FROM THE BACKYARD

Umesh kumar shukla answered the bell 25 times. Soma Jagan Mohan Reddy was the last to fall — 24 loops, then home. One story from Pune Chapter 2026.

Pune ChapterREAD THE STORY

FROM THE BACKYARD

Thoudam Opendro Singh answered the bell 31 times. Sudipto Roychowdhury was the last to fall — 30 loops, then home. One story from BigFoot Backyard Ultra — Bengaluru 2025.

BigFoot Backyard Ultra — BengaluruREAD THE STORY

FROM THE BACKYARD

Amit Bhattacharjee answered the bell 18 times. Sourabh Jakhe was the last to fall — 17 loops, then home. One story from BigFoot Backyard Ultra — Ahmedabad 2025.

BigFoot Backyard Ultra — AhmedabadREAD THE STORY

FROM THE BACKYARD

Pulkit Jain answered the bell 25 times. Pulkit Verma was the last to fall — 24 loops, then home. One story from BigFoot Backyard Ultra — Pune 2025.

BigFoot Backyard Ultra — PuneREAD THE STORY

READ EVERY CHAPTER’S STORY

READ BEFORE YOU RUN

Notes from the backyard.

Training, culture and field notes between the bells — the writing that lives around the racing.

READ THE JOURNAL

10 Oct 2026

Final: Meghraj Sharma is the last one standing, 16 yards

Meghraj Sharma, bib 18, is the last one standing at BigFoot Ahmedabad: 16 yards, 107.3 km, finished 15 hours 46 […]

10 Oct 2026

Loop 16: 46:24 from bib 18, and the race is decided

Loop 16 is in, and the race is decided. Bib 18, Meghraj Sharma, went out alone and came back in […]

10 Oct 2026

Loop 15: past 100 km, and one left standing

Loop 15 is in: bibs 11 and 18 came back inside the hour, and fifteen yards is 100.6 km, or […]

THE LEDGER

It’s not just one race. It’s the tribe.

Every loop you complete and every DNF you earn goes into the same record — chapter after chapter, year after year. Not because a number needs keeping, but because you do. You are family here, and family gets remembered.

FIND YOURSELF IN THE RECORD

STAY IN THE LOOP

BE FIRST TO THE CORRAL

Chapter dates, registration windows and the record chase — dropped to the community before anywhere else.

No spam — just the bell before entries open near you.

BUILT WITH

HYDERABAD and MUMBAI are still looking for a home. Host a chapter →

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LAST ONE STANDING

The national Backyard Ultra mark

Every hour, a bell rings.

Answer it, or you’re out.

Last one standing wins.

A DNF IS NOT A FAILURE. IT'S A RECEIPT.

One finishes. The rest earn a DNF.

Nothing is lost. All is learnt.

THE 2026–27 SEASON

PUNE

AHMEDABAD

CHANDIGARH

BENGALURU

HYDERABAD

MUMBAI

Never run a loop? Come try the clock.

One loop. One hour.

The last runner standing.

India’s hardest, most human race.

Watch the film that started it all.

One story from every backyard.

Notes from the backyard.

Final: Meghraj Sharma is the last one standing, 16 yards

Loop 16: 46:24 from bib 18, and the race is decided

Loop 15: past 100 km, and one left standing

It’s not just one race. It’s the tribe.

BE FIRST TO THE CORRAL

ASKED EVERY SINGLE TIME.