Coalfields Backyard Ultra is a Bronze Ticket race toward the World Backyard Ultra Championship and first Backyard Ultra in West Virginia. The inaugural race will take place on Memorial Day weekend. The Coalfields Backyard Ultra is a Lazarus Lake sanctioned event through the Backyard Ultra.
Time: 7:00pm start
Location: Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College
Format: Last Runner Standing
Description: Participants will run every hour on our 4.1667 mile, down and back loop.
Be prepared. Most Backyard Ultras can take place for 3 days or more. Prep your crew and the essentials you need during the weekend.
The course has been measured to be 4.1667 (2.08 miles down and 2.08 miles back). The course takes place at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. Participants make their way out of the parking lot onto to asphalt course along the West Williamson Flood wall river path. At the end of the path, they will pass Williamson PK-8 school (gravel road) and run through a neighborhood division, pass a recreation area/community center to the turnaround point at 2.08 miles. The course is very flat and challenging being on asphalt. The course will be well-marked with cones, directional arrows, and any type of markers.
We will only have one aid station at the start/finish line. No artificial aid is allowed on the course such as your team coming to meet you on the course. Each participant will come back to the start/finish line. We will have aid such as water, and hydration, food, and porta potties. Participants are allowed to have their own aid and supplies for the event to keep them going.
Participants can set up camp at the start/finish line for them to rest within how many minutes they arrive from their loop.
There is one section of the course where the path can be very saturated. If it comes to that, we will redirect the course to the other side of the guardrail. Just follow the same flow as the course goes. Again, only if rains a lot during the weekend.
Coalfields Backyard Rules: Race begins every hour. The goal is not about who is the fastest, but how long can you push yourself during the Memorial Day Weekend. The yards will accumulate each hour with your mileage being added.
At each hour, we will have a warning system before each lap begins.
A bell will ring:
-3 min before
-2 min before
-1 min before we start the loop.
30 seconds will be announced before the start
• We will have a 10-second countdown before the start
• START (Bell will be rung)
– You have one hour to finish the loop. If you make it in time to the start/finish line, the participants can rest in between before the next loop begins at the top of the hour. Participants can go rest at their station, eat, use the restroom, etc before we begin again.
– We will put porta potties at both ends of the course and also have the Tech building open for restrooms and food.
– If you do not make it back to the top of the hour, then you are considered a “DNF.” Please do let our race organizers know if you are dropping out of the race. If there are 2 people left on the course and the other one DNFs, the lone participant must finish the loop to be considered the winner and Last Runner Standing.
– Those who are DNF will receive a unique item.
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