Adelaide is certainly not short of amazing mountains and trails that envelop the city. It is a city of beautiful landscapes, amazing heritage buildings and a culture or warmth and embrace like no other city in Australia. And now, we introduce you to an ultra marathon that starts up in the mountains, takes in those […]

Run on the amazing Yaberoo Budjara Heritage Trail through the Neerabup National Park, the race starts at the Burn’s Beach end before heading North along the recently upgraded limestone trails before heading to the turnaround locations for designated distances and returning to the finish. It will be a relatively fast course with around 600m of […]

Big Birdy: An 8’4” Mythical Man once found in the Wilderness of the Great South Western Bushlands of Australia. When Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra was created, little did Lazarus Lake know at how phenomenal the worldwide following would be to witness runners tackle a 6.71klm loop over and over again until the last one standing. […]

This is the ULTIMATE of Stage Races in the Southern Hemisphere. 500 kilometres of stunning coastline on a point to point trail that skirts the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. 7 days. 7 stages. Hundreds of mates and millions of memories. The Sink or Survive 500k Stage Race is an adventure that will be raw […]

We have found our forever home for this incredible event. Welcome to the Unreasonable East, coming to you now from Far North Queensland. Taking in the most incredible sights and trails between Port Douglas, Kuranda and Cairns, including beaches, waterfalls, mountains and the tablelands. Running in some of the oldest forests in the world and […]

The latest edition to the Ultra Series Backyard Ultra Grand Slam in Australia. And we are pretty excited that it is in the ‘Frontyard’ of Adelaide! No Time To Die Frontyard Ultra was inspired by the sister event ‘Herdy’s Frontyard in Perth where we set up a backyard ultra format event, but right in the […]

THE GREAT RELAYS are the latest ultra marathon craze to be sweeping the planet. Teams of 2 or 4 work together to collectively complete 100k events on trail or road. The phenomenon kicked off in the twenty teens in Asia with thousands of runners tackling the courses throughout several cities, and now the craze has […]

Sir Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen OBE (known commonly as Hans) was a prominent South Australian artist and 9 times winner of the Wynne Prize. Famed for his Australian landscape paintings, he grew inspiration from the beauty of the Adelaide Hills through to the Flinders Ranges. It would be no coincidence that the 1200klm long […]

You may have heard of the Feral and you want to be bold, We know it will be hot cos it’s never bloody cold! Once a year this event comes around for us all Is now the time for you to stand up and be tall? So you’re new to the trails and you want […]

Hysterical Carnage is the third instalment in the backyard ultra list of events brought to you by the Ultra Series family. It is crazy how intriguing these events are when an astonishing 99% of runners are guaranteed a dnf! When Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra was created, little did Lazarus Lake know at how phenomenal the […]