![]() Toh and Lau were part of a 15-strong team that represented Singapore in the Backyard Ultra championship, which is a form of "satellite competition". Those who fail to return before the hour is over, or choose not to start the next lap, are eliminated. Under the competition's rules, marathoners must consecutively run 6.7km laps at the start of every hour. The overall winners hailed from Belgium, where two runners ran a world record of nearly 677km in 101 hours. They each ran a total of around 340km over 50 hours, with Toh beating Lau in a mental battle during the race's final hour to clinch the national win and breaking the previous Singapore record of around 228km over 34 hours. SINGAPORE - After running the "race of their lives", two Singaporean ultramarathoners beat fatigue and outlasted hundreds of global competitors from countries with more established ultramarathon scenes, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Norway.Īcross three days from Oct 15, runners Joshua Toh, 45, and Deric Lau, 46, competed in the 2022 iteration of the Backyard Ultra World Team Championship, a global ultramarathon race format that was first held in the United States in 2011.
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