Costa Rica national champion
Won Costa Rica’s race at the Backyard Ultra World Team Championship with 25 yards at La Finca Backyard Ultra in Tarrazú.
Athlete profile · Sources reviewed Oct 19, 2026
Kendall Picado Fallas
Costa Rica’s 2026 national backyard champion and record holder
Kendall Picado Fallas is a Costa Rican backyard ultrarunner who completed a national-record 72 yards at the 2026 Go One More Ultra.
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National champion at the World Team Championship · 25 yardsBackyard Ultra World Team Championship 2026 · National champion
Won the national race with 25 yards
Completed yard 25 alone as the last runner standing for Costa Rica. Costa Rica’s national race is over: the team finished on 270 yards, 57th in the standings at this point.
Final results after yard 124 (16:07 UTC, 22 October), matching the organizer's official leaderboard. Organizer results ↗ Championship guide →
The record so far
Kendall Picado Fallas is a Costa Rican backyard specialist from Tarrazú. At the 2026 Go One More Ultra, he completed 72 yards and approximately 482.8 km, earning the assist and setting the Costa Rican national best listed by Big’s. The distance here is converted using the standard 6.7056 km yard.
His progression includes 50 yards at Sydney’s Backyard in April 2025 and victory at the 2025 Big Tex Backyard Ultra. A few weeks after Sydney he shared the win with Kim Gottwald at the weather-shortened 2025 Go One More event, where both remaining runners had completed 56 loops when lightning stopped the race.
Picado Fallas headed Costa Rica’s official selection for the 2026 Backyard Ultra World Team Championship and organized the country’s first backyard ultra, La Finca Backyard Ultra in Tarrazú, as its national site from 17 October 2026. He won Costa Rica’s national race there, completing his 25th yard alone after Martín Alonso Mena Jiménez stopped after 24.
Defining performances
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Costa Rican backyard record
Completed 72 yards and approximately 482.8 km at Go One More, finishing as the assist.
Big Tex Backyard winner
Won the Texas backyard event with 28 completed yards.
Go One More co-winner
Completed 56 loops and shared the win with Kim Gottwald when lightning forced the event to stop.
Performance history
Selected results, not a complete race history. Rankings and record descriptions reflect the cited sources at their review dates. Distances may use different rounding conventions.
| Date | Event | Performance | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backyard Ultra World Team Championship — Costa RicaBackyard ultra | 25 yards · 167.650 km | Winner · national champion | View ↗ | |
| Go One More UltraBackyard ultra | 72 yards · approximately 482.8 km | Assist · 2nd overall | View ↗ | |
| Big Tex Backyard UltraBackyard ultra | 28 yards · 187.768 km | Winner | View ↗ | |
| Go One More UltraLast-person-standingThe event was stopped because of lightning with two runners left and was declared a shared win; the unofficial published table ranks Picado Fallas second. | 56 completed loops · 235.2 mi | Shared win | View ↗ | |
| Sydney’s BackyardBackyard ultra | 50 yards · 335.300 km | 5th overall | View ↗ |
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