Ankit Sharma answered the bell 25 times. Ankamma Rao Pola was the last to fall — 24 loops, then home. One story from BigFoot Backyard Ultra — Pune 2024.
BigFoot Backyard Ultra — PuneREAD THE STORY
REGISTRATIONS OPEN · CHANDIGARH
FIND THE LIMITLESS YOU
One loop. One hour. Until one remains.
NEXT CHAPTERAHMEDABAD · 10 Oct 2026
SEE THE CHAPTERTO WHOEVER BREAKS THE RECORD
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TO THEIR ASSIST
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The national Backyard Ultra mark
THE NATIONAL MARK52Sunil Sharma — 52 hours on the clock, one loop after another, until one remained.
October 2024 · 348.7 km on foot — still the national mark.
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Ashwini Ganapathi — 28 hours, same clock, same rule: last one standing wins.
≈ 187.6 km on foot.
Every hour, a bell rings.
Answer it, or you’re out.
Last one standing wins.
FIRST BELL RINGS IN
When it rings, you run. Miss the corral and you're out. That's the whole contract.
A DNF IS NOT A FAILURE. IT'S A RECEIPT.
One finishes. The rest earn a DNF.
Nothing is lost. All is learnt.
THE TRUTH ABOUT DNF
In a backyard, all but one runner records a DNF — including most of the strongest people you'll ever share a corral with. You leave with the exact loop you reached and a memento stamped with that number. It's proof you went looking. Wear it loud.
Our most celebrated finish so far? A couple in Ahmedabad who DNF’d together.
THE SEASON
THE 2026–27 SEASON
Six cities. Same loop, same rules, same clock. The season runs from the Sahyadris to the sea.
FINISHED
19 Sept 2026 · Tukai Camping, Shindewadi
PUNE
BRONZE TICKET
ENTRIES OPEN
10 Oct 2026 · Green Panther Properties — GPP ONE, Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD
BRONZE TICKET
ENTRIES OPEN
14 Nov 2026 · Armaan Stud Farm
CHANDIGARH
SILVER TICKET
ENTRIES OPEN
12 Dec 2026 · AgniTeja Farm Stay
BENGALURU
BRONZE TICKET
COMING SOON
DATE TBA
HYDERABAD
BRONZE TICKET
COMING SOON
1 Mar 2027
MUMBAI
BRONZE TICKET
TRIAL RUNS
Never run a loop? Come try the clock.
A backyard ultra is unlike any race you have run — the hourly bell changes everything. So before you enter a chapter, come to a trial run: a free, informal session where you run the 6.706 km loop, on the hour, for as long as you like. No bib, no pressure, no finish line. Just you and one more.
What it is
A handful of runners, the real loop, and the real clock — run one lap or ten. A rehearsal for the ritual, not a race.
Why we run them
The format has to be felt, not explained. One trial and you know whether the hourly reset is your kind of madness.
How to join
Trials pop up in host cities before each chapter. Watch this space or the community — RSVP, then just show up in your shoes.
One loop. One hour.
The last runner standing.
India’s hardest, most human race.
THE FILM
Watch the film that started it all.
Plays right here — full screen, with sound.
POSTCARDS FROM THE BACKYARD
One story from every backyard.
A backyard sends everyone home with a DNF — save one. So we keep every chapter’s story, filed by hand, the way finishers were once handed a postcard at the line. None of it is lost to the clock.
READ BEFORE YOU RUN
READ THE JOURNAL Notes from the backyard.
Training, culture and field notes between the bells — the writing that lives around the racing.
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Pune Chapter — Loop 23
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THE LEDGER
It’s not just one race. It’s the tribe.
Every loop you complete and every DNF you earn goes into the same record — chapter after chapter, year after year. Not because a number needs keeping, but because you do. You are family here, and family gets remembered.
STAY IN THE LOOP
BE FIRST TO THE CORRAL
Chapter dates, registration windows and the record chase — dropped to the community before anywhere else.
No spam — just the bell before entries open near you.
