Pirate Backyard Ultra 2025 Vol.3
Sat, 08 Feb
|Putrajaya
This Pirate Backyard Ultra is back. This event is set in a beautiful Putrajaya Wetland Park in the heart of Putrajaya. Our main objective is to promote Wetland Putrajaya Park to the masses, especially to the local running communities and overseas runners coming to Malaysia as their running an
Time & Location
08 Feb 2025, 1:00 am MYT – 09 Feb 2025, 6:00 pm MYT
Putrajaya, 62000 Putrajaya, Malaysia
About the event
CONCEPT OF BACKYARD ULTRA
The concept of Backyard Ultra is more than 50 years old. Created by Gary Cantrell, a.k.a Lazarus Lake, the man behind The Barkley Marathon. 4 miles in under an hour, every hour, until only one person could complete the run. 4.16666667 miles (6.706km) an hour would come out to an exact 100 miles each day.
With no pressure to run fast, nearly everyone can participate, and it is an excellent format for socializing. Runners who would ordinarily see each other for minutes at the beginning of the race, can run together as much as they wish, and every hour ends with the entire field gathered together. For those who drop, it is a time to sit, eat, talk, and watch the event continue to unfold, almost immediately.
The Pirate Backyard Ultra is a form of ultramarathon race where competitors must consecutively run a 6.7km lap of…