Costa Rican backyard record
Completed 72 yards and 482.904 km at Go One More, finishing as the assist.
Source-checked athlete record · Updated Oct 12, 2026
Kendall Picado Fallas
Costa Rican backyard record holder and Go One More 2026 assist
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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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 482.904 km, earning the assist and setting the Costa Rican national best listed by Yardlore.
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 heads Costa Rica’s official selection for the 2026 Backyard Ultra World Team Championship and is organizing the country’s first backyard ultra, La Finca Backyard Ultra in Tarrazú, as its national site from 17 October 2026.
Defining performances
Performance history
| Date | Event | Performance | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go One More UltraBackyard ultra | 72 yards · 482.904 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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