THE WORLD RUNS ONE YARD AN HOUR
Nations race side by side, each on its own course, every one on the same bell. Follow every yard of the Satellite Championship, with Asia and Team India up front.
Live tracking on this site is run by UnScripters, to put India’s backyard movement on the map.
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India’s backyard movement, on the world stage
India’s team earned its places at backyard races held across the country, including BigFoot chapters. This page exists so that every runner who has wondered what one more yard feels like can watch it being done, hour after hour, by people from around the world.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
The backyard, the bell, the DNF — the things every first-timer wants to know before they toe the line.
What is the World Team Championship?
Big’s Backyard Ultra holds a World Team Championship in even years. Instead of everyone gathering in one place, each nation runs its own race at the same moment, and a nation’s score is the total yards run by all its runners. These national races are the “satellite” championships.
When does it start in India?
The 2026 championship starts on Saturday 17 October 2026 at 12:00 UTC, which is 5:30 pm IST. A backyard race has no fixed end: it runs until one runner in each nation is left standing, so the last nation can still be racing well into the following days.
Where is Team India racing?
The organisers’ live feed lists Pune, Maharashtra as the site for India. India runs in class AA with a team of up to 15 starters.
How does a nation win its own race?
Every hour each runner covers one yard of 6.706 km. A runner is out if they do not start the next yard or do not finish one inside the hour. The runner who completes a yard alone is the national winner, and the last runner to stop before them gets the assist. If the last runners stop on the same yard, that nation has no winner.
Where do these numbers come from, and how fresh are they?
Directly from the organisers’ own live results, read about once a minute. Each nation’s race director files yards hourly and the organisers check them, so results are provisional and can lag the course by a few minutes. A yard a nation has not filed yet is shown as awaiting, never as a stop.
Who runs this tracker, and why?
UnScripters runs this live tracker on the BigFoot Adventures India website. The purpose is shared: to make the backyard movement in India visible, so that more people see what a last-one-standing race is and where they can try one.
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 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.
Can I walk?
Yes. Walking is strategy, not weakness. Many strong backyard runners walk parts of every loop.