2.2. Kent Backyard Ultra Series | Dover

Backyard Ultras can be challenging — but they’re also one of the most sociable events out there.

You’ll run together, rest together, and push through together, one yard at a time.

Round Two at Dover kicks off on a crisp winter morning. It is your chance to find out what you’re really capable of — not in a blaze of glory, but one quiet hour at a time.

This is an offical Backyard Ultra, delivered under Lazarus Lake's official rules.

How it works

• You run a 4.167-mile loop, known as a “yard” every hour, on the hour.
• You must finish within 60 minutes and be back in the starting corral ready to go again.
• If you don’t make it in time, or choose not to continue, you’re out.
• At the start of the next hour, everyone who’s still in goes again.
• This continues until only one runner completes a yard on their own, that person is the Last One Standing.
• Because you can’t outrun the clock, most people naturally stick together, forming chatty, supportive groups out on the course.
• You run together, rest together, and go again together.
• It’s a rare format where everyone’s on the same journey, no matter how far they plan to go.

Course record

33 yards / 137.5 miles. Josh Woods. He’s coming back to defend it.

Stand on the line. Go yard by yard. Let’s see what happens next.