BUS – Backyard Ultra Sydkusten, don’t mistake the short form for an omnibus. This is a human powered foot race. Run and walk, run and walk, loop after loop until there is a Last One Standing. Equal terms for all. Open for all. Everyone competes in the same class. No matter age or gender, hair color or foot size. Normal race winning factors like muscle strength and speed is quite unimportant. Complete a 6706 meter loop within an hour and continue until there is only one left standing. All the runners are starting every loop at the same time, running together, talking and making friends while pushing each other farther. The impossible limits of your capacity is your own mental barrier. Here you can make the impossible possible. So get up on the BUS and enjoy an ultra running event for all.

One person wins.

All the rest is DNF.

I will DNF, but I’m not in it to win the race. I aim to win over myself and push myself harder and longer than I ever done before.

During the race soo many participants will do new PRs, help and support everyone in the race. Oh, the happiness and the joy! It really is the most supportive and friendly race, until it isn’t. Well, when there is only a handful left it gets competitive, but for all of us regular humans out there only to compete with ourselves it really is an amazing event. Last year I ran just over 100 kilometres in 15 hours. I hope to do better this year. Would really like to cross the 100 miles mark at 24 hours and to do that I aim for +30 hours of running. In these long distance races it’s the mind and focus that fails. Must aim higher than the goal to be able to reach it. Wish me luck and please do send me happy messages over Signal, iMessage or Instagram comments during the race.

Info about the BUS race: https://swedenrunners.se/bus/

Social media updates from the organizers:
Facebook – Sweden Runners
Facebook – Event/Group Backyard Ultra Sydkusten
Instagram – swedenrunners

My specific info: number: 39
Social media, I hope to update a bit during the race:
Instagram
RunKeeper

General info about Backyard Ultra
http://backyardultra.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra