RACE DATE: Saturday 7.00AM, APRIL 8, 2023
The Ultra Marathon Australia Event
Event details
Dead Cow Gully is no ordinary running event. It’s not just a race, it’s the ultimate measure of human endurance. Where is YOUR limit? Is it 5 or 15 loops? Is it 24 or 100 loops? The only sure thing about Dead Cow Gully, is the clock doesn’t stop until the last one is standing. Situated on a cattle property in Nanango Queensland, Dead Cow Gully is in a league of its own. You’re running on a 6th generation family property that the Walsh Family has called home for 150 years. The 6.7km course will take you through stockyards, grasslands, gullies and gumtrees, and you’ll be running alongside our cattle in the surrounding paddocks (they only charge at runners who fail to complete 3 loops).
BACKYARD ULTRA
The race format of a Backyard Ultra is quite simple. You have to run a 6.7km loop within the hour, every hour, until there is only one race participant left. Runners drop out of the race for 3 main reasons;
- Failing to complete the loop within the hour
- Failing to make the start line before the next loop begins
- Accepting defeat “Yeah I’m done mate”
So if you complete a loop in 45 minutes, you have 15 minutes before the next loop starts. What you do with your time is completely up to you, but you MUST be at the start line before the next loop starts. There are three, two and one minute warning bells so all participants are aware of the impending start time. In essence, there is a new race every hour. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you run the loop, as long as you make it back to the finish line before the 1 hour cut off. In a traditional Ultra Marathon, you can hit a low point in the race, but regather yourself for 30 minutes at the nearest aid station. Unfortunately you don’t have that same luxury in a Backyard Ultra. You can’t afford to have a ‘bad’ loop.
The clock never stops.
6.706 Km
1 loop
40.2 Km
6 loops
100.5 Km
15 loops
160.9 Km
24 loops
503 Km
75 loop World Record
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