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The Cowtown Marathon is an annual marathon held every last weekend in February in Fort Worth, Texas. The two-day activities include two 5Ks, a 10K, the half marathon, marathon and ultra marathon. With 29,000 participants in 2014, [1] the Cowtown is the largest multi-event in Texas. [2]
Big's Backyard Ultra is the original backyard ultra, invented by Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell of Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Participants run a 4.167-mile loop every hour, and are eliminated if they fail to complete a loop in an hour. The path of the loop is on trails during the day and along a road after dark.
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The 6 Days in the Dome event offers 12, 24, 48 and 72-hour and six and 10-day running races on the Pettit Center's indoor track.
Nepal hosts several ultramarathon races, [136] including the Annapurna 100, the Kanchenjunga Ultra Marathon Trail Running Race [137] and the Everest Ultra. [138] Running a total of 1,504 km in a bit more than 24 days, Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel set a new FKT during March 2018 for the Great Himalaya Trail .
Now she had plenty. "I laced up a pair of eighth-grade track shoes and started trying to run to my grandma's house," the 27-year-old tells me. At first, the 2-mile run through Chicago was a challenge.
The mountain bike race was the idea of Tony Post, then a marketing vice president at the Rockport Company, sponsor of the event who arranged for television coverage for both races. The first mountain bike race drew just 150 entrants, while the 2009 edition allowed 1400 entrants. [1] The race has continued to grow and to allow more entrants.
Lake went on to invent a new format of race in 2011, the backyard ultra. Participants run a 4.167-mile (6.706 km) loop every hour, on the hour and are eliminated if they fail to complete the loop in time. The distance of each loop is equal to 100 divided by 24, so that a competitor runs 100 miles for a full day of competition.