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Prairie Nightmare Backyard Ultra

Course record: 28 yards (Peter Pazerniuk - 2025).

Your worst nightmare is back again in 2026. The Prairie Nightmare will be run on the weekend of Aug 15/16. THIS DATE IS TENTATIVE The race is on a 6.7km trail loop running through Echo Valley Provincial Park (Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan). The course is flat, runnable, and non-technical, consisting of hardpack trail, grass, and a wee bit of gravel road. We started this with a group of ultra runners who wanted an in-person event during Covid-19 pandemic. We had 19 runners. We literally raced out of a backyard, out and back, on gravel roads. In 2021 we decided to expand and moved to a provinc…

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