BIG DOG'S BACKYARD ULTRA / WORLD SATELLITE BACKYARD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP  (updated October 20th)

Monday afternoon update: Cody Eubanks is out after 54 hours. Four others on the U.S. team are also out, leaving nine still standing. Only Australia has more, with ten.

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This is Super Bowl weekend for backyard ultra competitors and fans around the world. It all starts at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday.

The Big Dog's Backyard Ultra gives way this year to the biennial World Satellite Backyard Team Championship. Teams of 15 runners in 63 countries across the planet will be competing not only for their national teams, but also for a chance to be the last man standing worldwide, and thereby earn a golden ticket to next year's individual world championship at Big Dog's.

The U.S. team includes our friend Cody Eubanks of Jefferson City.  Cody earned one of the nine at-large spots on the team after completing 59 hours ("yards" in backyard ultra parlance) at the silver ticket Queeny Backyard Ultra in St. Louis back in March. This is Cody's second trip to Big Dog's. He competed in 2022, and lasted 48 hours.

Links:

Team U.S. tracking and results

Worldwide team tracking and results

Lazarus Lake's Facebook page

Big Dog's Backyard Ultra Run Group Facebook page

Backyard ultra home page

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GARMIN KANSAS CITY MARATHON, HALF MARATHON, 10K AND 5K (posted October 21st)

Two, young Lake-area runners were in Kansas City on Saturday for the Garmin Kansas City Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K and 5K--the biggest running race in the state. Here are their results:

Complete results can be found here.

Total participation at this year's race was up 15% over last year, and 40% over 2021, the first race after COVID.  Here are year-by-year totals, by distance, since 2015:  

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LAKE OF THE OZARKS OKTOBERFEST .5K AND 5K RUN/WALK (posted October 20th)

The second annual Lake of the Ozarks Oktoberfest .5K and 5K, benefiting Wonderland Camp, took place on Saturday at the recently opened The Sanctuary Brewery in Osage Beach.  A total of 57 participants toed the starting line (up from 54 last year), with 50 doing the 5K and 7 tackling the 0.5K.

The men's 5K was essentially a repeat of last year.   Tucker Seise won in 17:11 (versus 17:23 last year), with Nigher Alfaro taking second in 20:29 (20:15 last year).

Among the women, Elaine Mallahan finished first, in 22:54, about a half-minute ahead of Carolyn Clements of Cross Timbers.

Stacy Roberts, who reached the half-century mark this year, managed to eke out a four-second win over his wife, Katie.  (Katie must have raced with two broken legs for that to happen. Get well soon, Katie.)

Click for the the complete results:  5K and 0.5K

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HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY MEET RESULTS FOR OCTOBER 14th (posted October 15th)

Camdenton and Macks Creek cross country runners competed at the Dixon Invitational on Monday.  Gunner Rhoads and Luke Webb finished 1-2 (of 35 competitors) in the boys race.  Gunner crossed the line in 18:05, and Luke in 18:12. 

One week after running the fastest 5K of any Lake-area girl this season, Averie Hotle finished a fraction of a second behind teammate Payton Canales. Payton took second place (of 29 competitors) by finishing in 22:12.00.  Averie crossed in 22:12.27, earning third place.

Complete results can be found here.

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CHICAGO MARATHON (posted October 14th)

For the second year in a row, a world marathon record was smashed at the Chicago Marathon.  Last year, Kelvin Keptum won in a record 2:00:35, breaking Eliud Kipchoge's previous record of 2:01:09. (Tragically, Keptum was killed in an automobile accident last February.)

On Sunday, it was the women's world record that fell--and by a big margin. Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya won in 2:09:56, beating the previous record of 2:11:53 (set last year in Berlin) by nearly two minutes. Just as breaking 2:00:00 is the holy grail among the men, breaking 2:10:00 has been the same for women.  

The men's race was won by John Korir, also of Kenya, who finished in 2:02:43.  That stands as the second-fastest finish time ever at Chicago, trailing only Keptum's record.

You can read more about the race here. 

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