Murray Hodgson

Mark Dowdle is the biggest name in Backyard Ultra's, after an incredible run of Last One Standing performances this year including 73 yards at Go One More, 94 at Last Soul Ultra Germany and 107 yards for Team USA at the World Team Championships.  Mark is a must follow on social media, where he posts entertaining and insightful content chronicling the physical and mental realities of being an elite Backyarder.

In 2024 Dan Camac ran a huge 75 yards for Team Australia at the Sat Champs.  He followed  up a year later with another huge run, this time at Bigs for the Individual World Championship where he ran 93 yards.  Just recently Dan ran again for The Redback Yarders, this time he finished as the Last One Standing, completing 87 yards.

Tim Moffatt and Dom Halbert came back to recap the Satellite World Championship Fantasy Competition.  All the runners, all the teams, all the stats and all the glory.

Ryan Crawford ran his first Backyard Ultra in 2019 where he ran 25 yards.  He has since run 24 more Backyard Ultras including 2 times at Individual World Champs at Bigs and represented 'The Redback Yarders' three times.  In total, he has run 1189 yards.  Ryan has been focussing a lot of attention on coaching and has recently launched his website www.whitekenyancoaching.com

Costa Rican Runner and Sat Champs Team Manager Kendall Picado Fallas came onto the podcast to dive deep into team Costa Rica, which is making it's Backyard Ultra Satellite World Team Championship debut this weekend.

John Bayne is the Captain of the New Zealand Satellite World Championship Team.  John ran his PB of 72 yards at this race two years ago to finish as the assist.  Shaun Collins ran for Team New Zealand in 2020 and ran his PB of 39 yards at Kings last year.  This year, Shaun will be at the helm of the New Zealand race livestream.  Shaun and John break down the New Zealand 2026 Sat Champs team.

Murray loves Backyards and has had a huge 2026.  He has run at Gili, Herdys, Melbourne, Dead Cow Gully and most recently GV, where he ran 25 yards and broke the Australian 66yo age record.  He is crewing for Dan Camac and The Stalwart at The Sat Champs next week and Murray is also the organiser of Bali Backyard Ultra which is being run in November.

Belgium have been the dominant country in Backyards for years.  Not only have they finished on top of the last 2 Sat Champs, but they have broken the world record both times in the process.  Former world record holder with a PB of 110 yards, Frank Gielen came onto the podcast to give a rundown of this years Belgium team.

The 2026 Satellite Team Championships begin in less than 2 weeks.  There is a Sat Champs Fantasy competition where for fun you can select your own team of 15 runners.  Dom Halbert and Tim Moffatt came on to discuss their teams and selections.  Go to https://backyardultra.com.au/fantasy  To enter your team.

Lee has really put himself on the Backyard Ultra map this year.  He started 2026 off running a new PB of 35 yards at Sydney's in April and then in August he ran 45 yards at Reds.  Just over a week ago at Sydney's Backyard Ultra Lee ran another PB, this time by running a massive 65 yards and finishing as the Assist.