09/08/2026
ποΈ SARBAY BACKYARD ULTRA 2026 β HISTORY WAS MADE. ππ₯
The bell has finally gone silent.
The footsteps have stopped.
The loops are complete.
But the story written on the shores of SarBay will remain. β€οΈ
After hours of running, resting, recovering, fighting sleep, fighting pain, and answering the bell again and againβ¦
π LAST MAN STANDING
MARVIN BUIZON β 32 LOOPS
π€ ASSIST
RONNEL FALLARIA β 31 LOOPS
π₯ TOUGH 3
XAVIER DANDOβ 30 LOOPS
π LAST WOMAN STANDING
KIMBERLY FLORES β 28 LOOPS
And Kimmie didnβt simply become our Last Woman Standing.
She pushed beyond the previous Philippine womenβs Backyard Ultra mark and, subject to official record verification, may have written a new milestone not only for the Philippines, but for Southeast Asia. π΅ππ₯
32οΏΌ yards.
32 hours of answering the call.
One woman refusing to stop until her race was finally done.
That is what Backyard Ultra teaches us.
You donβt have to conquer everything at once.
You just have to answer one more bell.
Run one more yard.
Give yourself one more chance.
RUN. REST. REPEAT.
Until the legs hurt.
Until the night gets long.
Until the mind begins negotiating.
Until βone more loopβ becomes something much bigger than a number.
Because somewhere between the first bell and the last, this stopped being only a race.
It became a story of runners who refused to quit.
Crews who refused to leave.
Families who waited.
Friends who cheered.
Strangers who became family.
And a small corner of Sarangani that witnessed something unforgettable.
SarBay Backyard Ultra 2026 did not simply finish.
It made history. ππ΄π
To every runner who stood inside that corralβeven for one loopβyou became part of that history.
And to the HIGH GROUNDED Crew who worked behind every bell, every loop, every exhausted runner, every update, and every little detail that kept this Backyard movingβ¦
Now it is our turn to live by the words we kept asking our runners to follow:
RUN. REST. REPEAT.
The running is done.
For now, we REST.
We RECOVER.
Then we come back to tell the full story. β€οΈ
Official results, records, acknowledgements, and more race stories will follow as we give our HIGH GROUNDED Crew some well-earned time to recover.
To our runners, crews, volunteers, partners, sponsors, families, spectators, and everyone who believed in this first SarBay Backyard Ultraβ
Maraming salamat.
The bell may have stopped ringingβ¦
but what happened here will echo for a very long time.
ποΈ SARBAY BACKYARD ULTRA 2026
RUN. REST. REPEAT.
IT ENDS WHEN YOU QUIT.
And this weekend, Sarangani witnessed just how far people can go when they refuse to. ππ₯
