719. Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra, World Half Marathon and Al Oerter | Endurance Twitter

2020 Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra, the Race to nowhere starts tomorrow in Bell Buckle, TN .... and 20+ countries around the world!  This year it will be the last COUNTRY and RUNNER standing! "I thought we would have a more exciting field.  Like, of course, we have the Kenyans, we have the Ethiopians, but still I was surprised — and I’m still surprised — why Mo Farah is not part of the field…It’s quite really ridiculous that he’s not in the field.” #OnThisDay in 1964 and 1968, Al Oerter won his third and fourth Olympic gold medals in the discus becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to win the same event four times. He set Olympic records on both occasions. Endurance Noise & Random Musings Stay Healthy. Be Boring. Not Epic.