Quarantine Backyard Ultra
The Personal Peak Quarantine Backyard Ultra started on April 4, 2020. The virtual race had 2400 people start from 65 countries around the world. 45 hours later, there would be only two, Radek Brunner running on a treadmill in the Czech Republic, and Michael Wardian running loops around his neighbourhood in Virginia, USA. They would go head to head for another 18 hours, until Radek Brunner would fail to start the 63rd hour.
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Guys, I did a virtual Backyard race today and it was extremely fun/funny. The race had over 2500 people sign up to run 4.167 mi on the hour, every hour and it doesn’t end until there’s only one person left standing. I ran 5 “laps” on the dreadmill and then my joints were hurting real bad so I figured running 50 laps around my mother’s yard would be better 🤣 I’m literally loling over here looking at the strava pic. I stopped after 6 laps (25 miles) but the race will be going on with elite runners for days! Thanks for the experience personal_peak #QBstartline #QBdnf #quarantinebackyardultra #runningisntcancelled #running
Apr 4
Guys, I did a virtual Backyard race today and it was extremely fun/funny. The race had over 2500 people sign up to run 4.167 mi on the hour, every hour and it doesn’t end until there’s only one person left standing. I ran 5 “laps” on the dreadmill and then my joints were hurting real bad so I figured running 50 laps around my mother’s yard would be better 🤣 I’m literally loling over here looking at the strava pic. I stopped after 6 laps (25 miles) but the race will be going on with elite runners for days! Thanks for the experience personal_peak #QBstartline #QBdnf #quarantinebackyardultra #runningisntcancelled #running
It’s #QuarantineBackyard this morning. The snow that dumped on us last couple days and cold temps are not ideal. But what the hell. Got nothing better. We are both just gonna go and have fun and see how it goes. #personalpeak #QBStartline .
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#awesometodd #iamcanadian #nononsense #trailrun #salmingnorthamerica #salmingtrail #salmingrunning #runswedish #salmingambassador #everydaydirt #orangemudambassador #nottheprizebutthestruggle
Apr 4
It’s #QuarantineBackyard this morning. The snow that dumped on us last couple days and cold temps are not ideal. But what the hell. Got nothing better. We are both just gonna go and have fun and see how it goes. #personalpeak #QBStartline .
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#awesometodd #iamcanadian #nononsense #trailrun #salmingnorthamerica #salmingtrail #salmingrunning #runswedish #salmingambassador #everydaydirt #orangemudambassador #nottheprizebutthestruggle
4 april 2020 om 15u: start van de personal_peak Quarantine Backyard Ultra samen met brent_patteeuw
Meer dan 2000 deelnemers uit 53 landen☝🏻 Doel is: op ieder uur een rondje van 6,71km te lopen. En het uur erna opnieuw. En opnieuw... Zo lang mogelijk😬
#berghsports #bergh #personalpeak #qbstartline #quarantinebackyard #quarantinebackyardultra #PPQBY
Apr 4
4 april 2020 om 15u: start van de personal_peak Quarantine Backyard Ultra samen met brent_patteeuw
Meer dan 2000 deelnemers uit 53 landen☝🏻 Doel is: op ieder uur een rondje van 6,71km te lopen. En het uur erna opnieuw. En opnieuw... Zo lang mogelijk😬
#berghsports #bergh #personalpeak #qbstartline #quarantinebackyard #quarantinebackyardultra #PPQBY
Wettkampf, morgen, kein Scherz. Startnummer designed by rahel_.d.
#personalpeak #quarantinebackyard #quarantinebackyardultra #qbstartline
#witikerbackyardultra
#teamtrailmagazin
#trailmagazine
#thywear
Apr 3
Wettkampf, morgen, kein Scherz. Startnummer designed by rahel_.d.
#personalpeak #quarantinebackyard #quarantinebackyardultra #qbstartline
#witikerbackyardultra
#teamtrailmagazin
#trailmagazine
#thywear
Step 1: Post picture with bib at starting line.
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Race starts at 7:00am Saturday morning and will be streamed live on YouTube.
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#PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline #startingline #goldentoiletpaperroll #covi̇d19 #coronavirus #quarantinehair #garagegym #treadmill #ultrarunning #ultramarathon #thisisgoingtosuck #nobodycaresworkharder #godblessourfirstresponders #godblessamerica 🧻🏃♂️💨👮🏽🚒🚓🚔 🇺🇸
Apr 3
Step 1: Post picture with bib at starting line.
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Race starts at 7:00am Saturday morning and will be streamed live on YouTube.
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#PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline #startingline #goldentoiletpaperroll #covi̇d19 #coronavirus #quarantinehair #garagegym #treadmill #ultrarunning #ultramarathon #thisisgoingtosuck #nobodycaresworkharder #godblessourfirstresponders #godblessamerica 🧻🏃♂️💨👮🏽🚒🚓🚔 🇺🇸
Ready for the Quarantine Backyard Ultra tomorrow.
4.2 miles (42 garden laps) every hour until I drop.
#personalpeak #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline
Apr 3
Ready for the Quarantine Backyard Ultra tomorrow.
4.2 miles (42 garden laps) every hour until I drop.
#personalpeak #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline
Here we go! Good luck everyone .
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#runnergirl #trailrunning #trailrunner #ultrarunning #ultrarunners #ultrarunner #running #run #runner #ultrarunnersofinstagram #hshive #stingorbeestung #ultraspire #inspiredbyathletes #bocogear #honeystinger #runnersofinstagram #bocogearambassador #runvirginia #rundc #dcrunning #womensrunningcommunity #endurancerunning #enduranceathlete #personalpeak #quarantinebackyardultra #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline
Apr 4
Here we go! Good luck everyone .
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#runnergirl #trailrunning #trailrunner #ultrarunning #ultrarunners #ultrarunner #running #run #runner #ultrarunnersofinstagram #hshive #stingorbeestung #ultraspire #inspiredbyathletes #bocogear #honeystinger #runnersofinstagram #bocogearambassador #runvirginia #rundc #dcrunning #womensrunningcommunity #endurancerunning #enduranceathlete #personalpeak #quarantinebackyardultra #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline
The global lockdown has cancelled events of all kinds and trail races are no exception. In the name of “making lemonade”, the folks over at personalpeak have organized a “virtual” backyard ultra. The format is the same as the race I ran last June — 4.1mi/6.7km loops every hour, on the hour until you can’t run any more. The only difference is my starting/ending “corral” will be in the garage and the race course will be a tour of the neighbourhood. Oh, and there are over 2000 runners registered.
Last year, after lots of training, I ran 24 loops for total of 100 miles (160km). This year, I’ll be content to get half that, grateful to match that, and very lucky to exceed that. Race starts tomorrow (Saturday) at 6am PST. There’s supposed to be a Youtube live steam, but also I’ve recruited my mother to post updates on Instagram. Wish me luck and stay tuned!
#PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline
Apr 3
The global lockdown has cancelled events of all kinds and trail races are no exception. In the name of “making lemonade”, the folks over at personalpeak have organized a “virtual” backyard ultra. The format is the same as the race I ran last June — 4.1mi/6.7km loops every hour, on the hour until you can’t run any more. The only difference is my starting/ending “corral” will be in the garage and the race course will be a tour of the neighbourhood. Oh, and there are over 2000 runners registered.
Last year, after lots of training, I ran 24 loops for total of 100 miles (160km). This year, I’ll be content to get half that, grateful to match that, and very lucky to exceed that. Race starts tomorrow (Saturday) at 6am PST. There’s supposed to be a Youtube live steam, but also I’ve recruited my mother to post updates on Instagram. Wish me luck and stay tuned!
#PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline
Quarantine Backyard Ultra tomorrow at 9:00. Location in my back yard on a 40 meters loop! #QuarantineBackyardUltra #PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline #hamiltonrunningclub #ikearunner
Apr 3
Quarantine Backyard Ultra tomorrow at 9:00. Location in my back yard on a 40 meters loop! #QuarantineBackyardUltra #PersonalPeak #QuarantineBackyard #QBStartline #hamiltonrunningclub #ikearunner
Repost from our dear boss tri.rinat.mustafin who attemts an absoultely crazy challenge for a good cause at 5pm Dubai time today. We wish you luck!
#THANKYOU
I`m running Quarantine Backyard Ultra for all those people who continue to work at social services these days to slow down spread and to make sure humanity has a solution asap 🙏👏🙏
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I don`t have a backyard so I`m gonna do laps inside the apartment. Race starts at 17:00 Dubai time today (April 4). No one knows where and when it is going to end. Over 2000 athletes from 53 countries will start to run at the same time. Treadmills, outdoors and indoors can be used. We will have 60 minutes to run 6.71k, refuel and rest. And again. And again. As many reps/hours as one can. Startline has to be the same every hour. Last man standing will get roll of golden toilet paper 🥇😂 Let`s see where it will lead us to. One lap at a time. For info - 6.71k is equal to 129 laps of my main running loop (about 50m) 🤪
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I`m lucky and privileged enough to have my family as support crew. They will try to post updates in stories. I will very much appreciate to hear your words along the way thru social medias and whatsapp. Organizers provides livestream and online results too (see second image). Hope it will work properly but not too sure as there are a lot of runners
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Good luck to all athletes!! ✊
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Enjoy your lockdown as much as you can, ladies and gents. Stay healthy. Stay home. Stay sport. See you on the other side 👍
#ilovesupersport #iloverunningsomuch
#personalpeak #qbstartline #quarantinebackyard #ultrarunning #runningmotivation #ilovesupersport_dxb #runner #stayhome
Apr 4
Repost from our dear boss tri.rinat.mustafin who attemts an absoultely crazy challenge for a good cause at 5pm Dubai time today. We wish you luck!
#THANKYOU
I`m running Quarantine Backyard Ultra for all those people who continue to work at social services these days to slow down spread and to make sure humanity has a solution asap 🙏👏🙏
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I don`t have a backyard so I`m gonna do laps inside the apartment. Race starts at 17:00 Dubai time today (April 4). No one knows where and when it is going to end. Over 2000 athletes from 53 countries will start to run at the same time. Treadmills, outdoors and indoors can be used. We will have 60 minutes to run 6.71k, refuel and rest. And again. And again. As many reps/hours as one can. Startline has to be the same every hour. Last man standing will get roll of golden toilet paper 🥇😂 Let`s see where it will lead us to. One lap at a time. For info - 6.71k is equal to 129 laps of my main running loop (about 50m) 🤪
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I`m lucky and privileged enough to have my family as support crew. They will try to post updates in stories. I will very much appreciate to hear your words along the way thru social medias and whatsapp. Organizers provides livestream and online results too (see second image). Hope it will work properly but not too sure as there are a lot of runners
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Good luck to all athletes!! ✊
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Enjoy your lockdown as much as you can, ladies and gents. Stay healthy. Stay home. Stay sport. See you on the other side 👍
#ilovesupersport #iloverunningsomuch
#personalpeak #qbstartline #quarantinebackyard #ultrarunning #runningmotivation #ilovesupersport_dxb #runner #stayhome
With all races cancelled up to at least end of June, I hadn’t planned on any races, let alone coming out of ultra “retirement” this weekend. Ended up completing 10 rounds, 10 hours, and 42.20 miles at the #quarantinebackyardultra. Thanks to personal_peak for putting on a fun event and giving us runners an opportunity to connect albeit virtually. Also a special thanks to iloendurance for being my constant source of fuel and positive encouragement throughout. A special shoutout to my good friend pdxveganrunner who also completes his first 50k today at the event. 🏃🏼
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Apr 5
With all races cancelled up to at least end of June, I hadn’t planned on any races, let alone coming out of ultra “retirement” this weekend. Ended up completing 10 rounds, 10 hours, and 42.20 miles at the #quarantinebackyardultra. Thanks to personal_peak for putting on a fun event and giving us runners an opportunity to connect albeit virtually. Also a special thanks to iloendurance for being my constant source of fuel and positive encouragement throughout. A special shoutout to my good friend pdxveganrunner who also completes his first 50k today at the event. 🏃🏼
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#running #run #runner #runners #instarun #runnersofinstagram #runningman #runnerscommunity #runnersworld #runtoinspire #runnerslife #runitfast #runningmotivation #runforlife #runrunrun #runninglife #runaddict #runnerlife #runfast #runstrong #runstagram #borntorun #fitness #healthy #stayfit #runshirtless #ultrarunning nikerunning pandemicrunclub tracksmithrunning #QBstartline #qbdnf
#quarantinebackyardultra done! Three laps + a little extra to hit my half marathon goal. I should have been in Washington for a race this morning so thank you personal_peak for this perfectly timed event. It’s going to be fun watching this virtual race unfold for days (and nights) to come. Good luck, everyone! #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline #qbdnf _erinkbailey
Apr 4
#quarantinebackyardultra done! Three laps + a little extra to hit my half marathon goal. I should have been in Washington for a race this morning so thank you personal_peak for this perfectly timed event. It’s going to be fun watching this virtual race unfold for days (and nights) to come. Good luck, everyone! #quarantinebackyard #qbstartline #qbdnf _erinkbailey
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feeds – April 4-6, 2020
The Quarantine Backyard Ultra was a grand misadventure of live streaming. For this reason or that we constantly found our YouTube channels being shut down mid-stream for unknown reasons. We would jump the stream to another channel, then get shut down, then we would jump again. Eventually the stream ended up on Facebook. However, following along has been a seemingly impossible task. So we organized the videos into a timeline.
Below is the comprehensive list of all of the Quarantine Backyard Ultra LIVE feeds.
You can also following along using the interactive timeline above.
RACE START TO MIDDAY
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 1st Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 1st Mass 1 Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 1st Mass 2 Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 1st Mass 3 Feed (Channel Banned)
MIDDAY TO NEXT MORNING
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 2nd Elite Feed (Channel Banned)
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 2nd Mass 1 Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 2nd Mass 2 Feed (Channel Banned)
NEXT MORNING TO ADDING ALL TO ELITE FEED
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 3rd Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 3rd Mass 1 Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 3rd Mass 2 Feed
ALL REMAINING RUNNERS ON ONE FEED
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 4th Elite Feed
FINAL SHUT DOWN ON YOUTUBE
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 5th Elite Feed (Channel Banned)
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 6th Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 7th Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 8th Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 9th Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – 10th Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – FINAL Elite Feed
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – LIVE feed – April 4-6, 2020 – Michael Wardian Final Thank you
Quarantine Backyard Ultra LIVE Updates
The amazing Broadcast Team posted LIVE updates about the Quarantine Backyard Ultra every 6 hours throughout the entire QBU!
This Team was conceived, assembled, and lead by Dave Robertson with much of the heavy lifting done by second year Mount Royal University broadcast students Diana De Gracia, and Ryan Yip with the help of professional newscaster, Mark Villani.
Together, these four produced amazing, LIVE content throughout the QBU. They interviewed participants and organizers, incorporated fun and interesting video content submitted by you, and kept you informed about what was happening from start to finish.
With less than 6 days from initial conception, to “Go Time”, this team managed to pull off something truly incredible!
Thank you Team for producing something truly special! We are so grateful for all of your hard work!
Quarantine Backyard Ultra – Pre-event Show
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Saturday Morning
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Saturday Noon
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Saturday Midnight
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Sunday Morning
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Sunday Noon
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Sunday Evening
Quarantine Backyard Ultra Update – Sunday Midnight
“Marathoning in Place”
April 17, 2020
“How to Run for 2.5 Days”
April 11, 2020
“Amazing Grace of the Quarantine Backyard Ultra”
April 7, 2020
“COVID-19: 170 km de course en 25h pour une bonne cause”
April 13, 2020
“Wardian’s Quarantine Win”
July 8, 2020
“The Quarantine Backyard Ultra Is Perfectly Insane”
April 7, 2020
Did we miss something? Let us know here
Greg Armstrong – Facebook | 43 laps | 🇺🇸
Richard McChesney – “Richard Walks London” | 29 laps | 🇬🇧
Dan Beck – Facebook | 28 laps | 🇺🇸
Ross Noble – “The Noble Nomad” | 17 laps | 🇨🇦
Ella Raff – “Rambling Red” | 15 laps | 🇺🇸
Duc Do – “Do by Duc” | 12 laps | 🇦🇺
Martin Schneekloth – “Ultra Kraut Running” | 8 laps | 🇺🇸
Mark Villani – “Mark in Motion” | 8 laps | 🇨🇦
Martin Parnell | 7 laps | 🇨🇦
Did you write a race report about your experience of the Quarantine Backyard Ultra? Let us know here
Bonus:
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How to make your Quarantine Backyard Ultra Finisher Trophy! |
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Step 1: Fill in your Name, and Number of Laps |
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Step 2: Print off the PDF you receive via email |
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Step 3: Cut out all 7 pieces |
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Step 4: Fold all tabs, and glue pieces together |
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Step 5: Hang it up, and admire your accomplishment! |
