ANKIT SHARMA
Debut 2024
60 yards across 2 cities — 402.4 km, and 60 hours of answering the bell. 23 of those hours were run in the dark.
THIS ONE'S YOURS
Every yard Ankit has earned, on one card with their name on it. Save it, share it, tag us and we'll put the good ones on our own feed.
ONLY ANKIT CAN SAVE THIS CARD
THE YARDS
One yard is one 6.706 km loop, completed inside its hour. It is the only number this sport keeps, and it cannot be bought, rounded or estimated — a volunteer tapped every one of these in.
That is 9.5 marathons, run one 6.706 km loop at a time — with a bell every hour to remind Ankit to stop and eat.
THE SHAPE OF IT
A backyard career is not a straight line. Weather, sleep, a bad stomach at 2am and a good crew all show up in this graph, and so does every year of getting stronger.
10 fewer yards than their first bell in Pune. Backyard doesn't only move one direction, and neither does this graph.
WHAT THE LEDGER KEEPS
Not badges. Straight off the loop logs, on the night.
- 3CHAPTERS RUN
- 25BEST SINGLE RACE
- 23HOURS IN THE DARK
- 1SUNRISES REACHED
- 2CATEGORIES COMPLETED
- 2DNFS
- 34:10FASTEST LOOP
- 25DEEPEST HOUR
- 9.5IN MARATHONS
THE RECORD
Every one of Ankit's races, newest first, exactly as the ledger holds it — including the ones that ended early. A DNF is not an asterisk in this sport; it is the ordinary ending.
- DNF15yards · 100.6 km · 15 hoursBib 1Fastest loop 41:304 hours in the darkEnded on loop 16
- FINISHED20yards · 134.1 km · 20 hours · cap 158 hours in the dark
- FINISHED25yards · 167.7 km · 25 hoursFastest loop 34:1011 hours in the darkRan into the sunrise
For Ankit, nothing is lost. All is learnt.
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