BENGALURU 2025
13 December 2025 · AgniTeja Farm Stay
A finished edition. Everything below is the record as the ledger kept it.
← THE BENGALURU CHAPTERLAST ONE STANDING
Thoudam Opendro Singh
31 YARDS
Sudipto Roychowdhury
30 YARDS
The last to fall. Their final loop is what sent the winner out alone — an honour here, not a runner-up placing.
THE FORMAT, IN BENGALURU
6.706 KM · 60 MIN · last runner standing.
Bengaluru gives you sixty minutes and a green place to spend them.
From AgniTeja Farm Stay, the backyard moves through the rural landscape off Kanakapura Road, with farm country, coconut plantations and village-road character shaping the chapter. It is mostly runnable, which means the first mistake will be available immediately: running more than you need to.
The arithmetic of a backyard is simple. Every hour you owe the race 6.706 kilometres. Whatever time remains after you return belongs to you.
You may eat, change, sit, repair something, close your eyes or reconsider your life choices.
The bell remains punctual.
At first, an hour feels enormous. Later, small things begin stealing pieces of it. A slower loop. A shoe change. A stomach problem. Five extra minutes walking where you used to run.
Nothing dramatic needs to happen.
That is one of the nicer features of the format. It can dismantle a runner using very small parts.
The course remains the same while your relationship with it changes. By night, familiar turns become measurements. The question is no longer whether you can finish this yard.
You probably can.
The better question is whether you are leaving enough of yourself to start the next one.
The green deadline arrives every hour.
It has never been late.
FROM THE BENGALURU CHAPTER
THE BENGALURU JOURNAL
Writing about this chapter, and about the backyard in general.
BENGALURU — PAST EDITIONS
Every prior running of the Bengaluru chapter, with the result as the ledger recorded it.
OTHER CHAPTERS
BENGALURU is one of six. Same loop, same bell, different ground — see the rest of the season.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
The backyard, the bell, the DNF — the things every first-timer wants to know before they toe the line.
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.
How do I register?
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 in October 2024. 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.
Can I walk?
Yes. Walking is strategy, not weakness. Many strong backyard runners walk parts of every loop.
THE BELL, BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
Dates, entry openings and the Bengaluru race report — sent when there is something real to say, and not otherwise.
Nothing is lost. All is learnt.