Who runs out into the night?
The backyard race is in full swing in Askjahlíð. At nine o’clock this morning, 203 runners left, but now there are fewer than a hundred people left. Some of them will continue into the night.
The backyard race began in Öskjuhlíð at 9 this morning and participants have now run about 75 kilometers.
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Competitors run 6.7 kilometers as often as they can and have an hour to finish the ring at any given time. Each ring starts with the whole time and competitors need to be in the channel and run when the bell rings for the next whole time, otherwise they are judged from the competition.
From the backyard.
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The competition is now on the 12th round and the organizers of the race report on Facebook that the next big step is at midnight when the remaining competitors have reached 100km distance.
Runners get an hour to run 6.7 kilometers and get to take advantage of the leftover time at rest. Then they set off in the next lap.
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The Icelandic record now stands in 62 rounds (415 km) and the world record is 116 rings (777 km). The winner gets a car in the prize, Kia EV3, if he manages to run his tear, which is 605 kilometers (91 circles). He would still have to run for almost four days.
The weather can hardly play better with backyard runners.
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Backyard runners finish ring.
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The backyard race is in full swing.
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From the backyard race today.
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