Ultra Weekend Recap — October 26, 2025

Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra

Australian Phil Gore earned the title of world’s best backyard ultrarunner earlier this week, winning the Big’s Backyard Ultra, the 2025 Backyard Ultra World Championships, by running an astonishing 475 miles. While not a world record (Gore ran 495.8 miles in June), Gore’s 114 yards (each yard is a 4.167-mile loop) is the most run on American soil and the top performance ever at Big’s. Assisting Gore to his victory was Belgian Ivo Steyaert, who lasted 113 yards (470.83 miles) before eventually bowing out. Americans Harvey Lewis and Jon Noll also had personal best showings this year, finishing with 111 laps and 462.5 miles each. On the women’s side, Sarah Perry of Great Britain shattered the backyard ultra women’s world record by running 95 laps. Perry added eight yards to Megan Eckert’s previous world record set last year and finished with an amazing 395.83 miles. Perry’s assist came from none other than Eckert, who improved upon her 2024 CR by 5 yards and finished second female with 92 loops and 383.33 miles. Edit Furész finished third for the women, completing 316.66 miles (76 loops). Full results here.

Javelina Jundred

This year’s Javelina Jundred will go down as one of the most epic 100-milers of the 2025 race season, with incredible performances on both the women’s and men’s sides. In the women’s event, Tara Dower ran a blistering 8:07 pace on her way to winning in a new female course-record time of 13:31:47. Dower finished seventh overall and took over a half-hour off Camille Herron’s previous course mark. Beth McKenzie ran a steady race to claim a second-place finish (ninth overall) in 14:31:14. Addie Bracy (14:45:02) rounded out the women’s podium in third. In a thrilling men’s race, the top three runners all went well under the previous course record time of 12:43:10 and finished less than 10 minutes apart from one another. First place honors went to new course-record holder Will Murray, who raced across the line in 12:10:12 (7:18 pace), staking his claim as the fastest man in the desert. David Roche was the second male finisher in 12:18:06. Canyon Woodward (12:19:58) finished less than 2 minutes back in third. Dower, McKenzie, Murray and Roche all earned Golden Ticket automatic entries into the 2026 Western States Endurance Run.

Top 100k finishers:

Men

Jordan Maddocks (8:29:40)
Eric Miya (8:35:11)
Cal Calamia (8:51:41)

Women

Katie Asmuth (8:32:18)
Corinne Shalvoy (8:52:10)
Leandra Zimmerman (9:16:36)

Full results here.

No Business 100

The ninth annual No Business 100 kicked off Friday at Pickett CCC Memorial State Park in Jamestown, Tennessee. There were 191 of the 271 starters who completed the single 100-mile loop course, paced by women’s winner Michelle Magagna, who won in a new female course-record time of 20:27:02. Magagna finished second overall. Runner-up in the women’s race and sixth place overall went to Laura Ricci in 20:40:45. Lauren Hendrickson (23:49:18) came in third. Anthony Groft ran the third-fastest men’s course time ever to take the win in 19:31:23. Henry Jochem was the second male and third overall finisher in 21:04:55. Andrew Nelson (21:18:30) completed the men’s podium and was fourth overall. Full results here.

Door County Fall 50

Our final stop takes us to Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula for the 19th running of the Door County Fall 50. There were 153 runners who completed the point-to-point course down to Sturgeon Bay, led by Adam Sanchez in 6:02:45. Edward Mello was the second-fastest man in 6:17:26. Hunter Hoffman (6:27:18) came in third. Erika Miller ran a dominant race to win the women’s event in 6:41:20. Miller placed sixth overall. Elizabeth Cinquegrani was the second woman across the line in 7:21:45. Nicole Strutz (7:27:02) snagged third. Full results here.

Other results from this weekend include: Canyonlands Ultra (Moab, UT), Womp Romp (Hingham, MA), Kansas Rails-to-Trails Extravaganza (Ottawa, KS), Gate2Gate 50k (Alachua, FL), Georgia Sky to Summit (Dillard, GA) and Autumn Leaves 50/50 (St. Paul, OR).

Full list of results here.