2 Rivers Backyard Ultra RD Report

May 27, 2025

2 rivers backyard ultra

17 may 2025

echuca, Vic

Contributed by Robert howse, Rd

What an amazing weekend of camaraderie, competition, and close calls we had at the inaugural 2 Rivers Backyard Ultra.

Fifty-nine runners started on Saturday, 17 May 2025 at 12pm, with 38 of them never having run in a backyard ultra before. We love seeing first timers come along and push their limits. Many of them hadn’t trained, and found that the format was a little more complex than they expected with the need for a bit of strategy when it comes to lap times and nutrition.

Some amazing personal bests were set over the weekend with some standouts being Kaja from the local running club, taking her PB from 21km to 80km in 12 yards.

Rose and Kelvin both went from 19 and 18 respectively to 30, breaking the 200km mark, and many more. It was astounding to us the amount of local runners that were with er just weeks before or weeks after Ironman events, all pushing hard anyway.

In the end David ‘Patto’ Patterson dropped at 33 yards, leaving Chris Dalton (TAS) and Ross McLean (VIC) to battle it out for the win.

At the end of the 35^th Yard, Chris conceded that Ross looked much fresher, and was likely to take the win, and called it a day. Ross completed yard 36 to win the event.

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