Ankit Sharma
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ANKIT SHARMA

Debut 2024

BY4BY8BY15BY24ULTRA

45 yards across 2 cities — 301.8 km, and 45 hours of answering the bell. 19 of those hours were run in the dark.

YOUR CORNER

THIS ONE'S YOURS

Every yard you've earned, on one card with your name on it. Save it, print it, stick it on your laptop — post it and tag us and we'll put the good ones on our own feed.

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THE INDEX

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.

CAREER YARDS45
301.8kilometres45hours on the clock25deepest single hour46:35typical loop · 6:57 /km

That is 7.2 marathons, run one 6.706 km loop at a time — with a bell every hour to remind Ankit to stop and eat.

RACE BY RACE

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.

BEST25
20
Pune2024
Mumbai2024▼ 5
Yards per race, oldest first. Saffron marks a category completed; the line traces the same climb a second way, and the chip under each race is the move from the one before it.

5 fewer yards than their first bell in Pune. Backyard doesn't only move one direction, and neither does this graph.

THE DETAIL

WHAT THE LEDGER KEEPS

Not badges. Straight off the loop logs, on the night.

  • 2CHAPTERS RUN
  • 25BEST SINGLE RACE
  • 19HOURS IN THE DARK
  • 1SUNRISES REACHED
  • 2CATEGORIES COMPLETED
  • 1DNFS
  • 34:10FASTEST LOOP
  • 25DEEPEST HOUR
  • 7.2IN MARATHONS
EVERY RACE

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.

  • Mumbai2024BACKYARD 15
    FINISHED
    20yards · 134.1 km · 20 hours · cap 15
    8 hours in the dark
  • Pune2024BACKYARD ULTRA
    FINISHED
    25yards · 167.7 km · 25 hours
    Fastest loop 34:1011 hours in the darkRan into the sunrise
ON THE START LIST
  • PuneBACKYARD ULTRAENTERED

For Ankit, nothing is lost. All is learnt.

THE STORIES ANKIT RAN THROUGH