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Programmes / Backyard
Prepare your Backyard with a tailor-made training plan. First challenge or performance goal: Campus adapts each workout to your level and your goal to help you go ever further, loop after loop.

The Campus Method draws on the experience of 600,000 runners and the analysis of 60 million kilometres run to provide effective, precise training plans tailored to each individual’s goals.

Training well for a Backyard means, above all, developing your ability to chain together kilometers and efforts, loop after loop, without exhausting your resources too quickly.
People often talk about Backyard as an endurance event, but the challenge is also muscular: over the hours, the repeated efforts and impacts put muscles and tendons under great strain.
The Campus training plan will gradually build your muscular and tendinous resilience, while developing your ability to manage effort and recover between each loop. The goal: to help you stay strong and efficient for as long as possible, until you decide to stop.
A methodology developed by expert coaches over the past five years. It's precise, intelligently tailored, and truly effective.
Campus offers you four types of workouts to prepare for your next Backyard. From easy endurance to various interval sessions, including long runs and strength & conditioning, nothing is left to chance to accompany you step by step toward your goal.
It’s about so much more than just running—we’re here for you even when your running shoes are in the closet.
600,000 runners have already improved their performance using the Campus method. A proven training philosophy, refined through the analysis of 60 million kilometres of running.
A Backyard Ultra is an elimination race: you run a 6.706 km loop every hour, and the last runner still in the race wins. There is no distance or duration fixed in advance. The format was created in the United States by Lazarus Lake, the organizer of the Big's Backyard Ultra.
Because 6.706 km × 24 loops = 160.9 km, or 100 miles in 24 hours. It's the mythical ultra distance, scaled to an hourly pace.
The start of each loop is given at a fixed time, every 60 minutes. You must complete the 6.706 km before the hour is up and be in the corral at the next start. The remaining time is used to refuel, rest, or change. If you do not start again, or if you go over the hour, you are eliminated.
The winner of a Backyard is the only runner to complete one more loop than everyone else, alone. Everyone else is classified "DNF" (Did Not Finish), including the penultimate runner. If no one completes that final solo loop, there is no winner.
From a few hours to several days. At major events, the best runners go far beyond 100 loops, or more than 670 km and more than 4 days without a real night of sleep.
No, we recommend setting yourself a personal goal instead. For example, reaching a certain number of loops, which will correspond to a specific distance (10 kilometers, marathon, 100 kilometers, etc.). That's the beauty of the Backyard: it is suited to absolutely all levels and all goals.
Absolutely! If you are capable of running 6.7 kilometers in 1 hour, you can get started in a Backyard. Of course, to make it a unique challenge, we recommend having good running experience so you can chain the loops at your own pace and reach a distance goal. Ultra runners will aim for more than 10 loops minimum, but each level has its own number of loops. That's the beauty of the Bacykard.
Very slowly. A loop in 60 minutes corresponds to about 6.7 km/h, which is a brisk Walk Fast pace. Most runners aim for 45 to 50 minutes per loop (about 8 to 9 km/h) to keep 10 to 15 minutes of rest. The challenge is not speed but the ability to repeat the same very easy effort for hours.
To find out what pace to run according to the rest time you want, you can read this full article !
In a classic ultra, you manage a continuous effort over a known distance. In a Backyard, you repeat a run + recovery training block without knowing when it will stop. Your preparation must therefore work on easy endurance, the run/Walk alternation, fast recovery between two loops, managing fatigue and lack of sleep, and Mental strength.
Your plan is built from your profile and your goal. Your Campus coach advises you to determine a number of loops consistent with your level and your room for progress. Of course, you keep control of the final choice!
Your plan combines:
des workout d'intensity to work on your speed and running economy ;
easy endurance runs to build your aerobic base;
fixed-time loop simulations, to get you used to the run + rest training block ;
long runs and shock weekends to develop your ability to string together hours of effort;
strength & conditioning, essential for working on your muscular resilience.
Between 3 and 6 workouts depending on your level and the time you can devote to it. You're the one who indicates your available days, and the plan is organized around them. Of course, the number of weekly workouts must be in line with your goal. Your Campus coach is there to support you and help you arbitrate between your aspirations and the reality of your daily life.
Yes. Set an approximate target date and a loop goal: you can change the date later, and the plan will readjust.