STAY UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST RUNNING STORIES WITH ALL ACCESS TO RUNNERSWORLD.COM!Īs the sun rose and the third day began on Monday, two more fell when Moore and Rainwater did not start the 49th loop. On the 40th loop, the reigning champ, Guterl, missed the cutoff, ending her race. Along with Sarah Moore, Gabe Rainwater, Jacob Conrad, and Olivier Leblond, they all made it through the first 33 hours before the top half of the field started to slowly fall off over the second day. Team USA had one of the strongest fields with names like Dauwalter, 2019 winner Maggie Guterl, Harvey Lewis, and Amelia Boone toeing the line. Though the races would run together, each satellite event would be a stand-alone race, meaning once a winner of that event was found, their race was over. The countries competed against each other to see who could last the longest and rack up the most yards (total distance). So this year, more than 20 countries fielded teams of, at most, 15 runners, and ran their own backyard ultras simultaneously. Laz took inspiration from the Quarantine Backyard Ultra from April and decided to make the event partially-virtual and entirely live-streamed. Because of numerous travel restrictions around the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic, the international field (75 percent of the 2020 field, which was picked in 2019) was unable to participate in-person. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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