# Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra

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Mark Dowdle won the Last Soul Ultra in Germany on August 14, a backyard-format race of 4.167-mile loops run on the hour, covering 395 miles in just under 94 hours without sleep. He arrived 15 minutes before the start after race director Kim arranged a private jet from Amsterdam to Mooster, and around 60 to 62 hours in he told a friend the race was too hard to continue but that he would not stop. The course was an old military base, 65 percent concrete, and one competitor was airlifted out. Dowdle hallucinated a constant state of nostalgia, feeling he had been there before. Mike Egan, a bilateral amputee and wheelchair user, set a personal record of 31 or 32…

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## Segments

- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 0:30 to 1:20: **Introduces Dowdle and explains the backyard format**. Introduces ultramarathoner Mark Dowdle and his win at the Last Soul Ultra in Germany, then has him explain the backyard-ultra format: a 4.167-mile loop every hour until one runner is left. New angle: Dowdle ran 395 miles in just under 94 hours without sleep to win the Last Soul Ultra.
- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 1:20 to 10:03: **Walks through the backyard format from inside the race**. Dowdle walks through the backyard format himself - the 4.167-mile loop on the hour, the unknown of when it ends - and adds first-hand detail from inside the race: the hour-60 call to Cody, the crying as release, the tent of friends and wife Lucy.
- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 19:41 to 30:37: **Recaps the travel scramble and race-day logistics**. Dowdle walks through the race-day logistics: the missed Frankfurt connection, the private jet from Amsterdam arranged by race director Kim, and arriving 15 minutes before the start. Also new: the August 14 2 p.m. start, 50-minute loops with five-minute sleeps, and the concrete military-base course.
- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 30:37 to 42:12: **Details the concrete course and nutrition plan**. Dowdle details race-day logistics: eating something every loop, holding the nutrition plan loosely, and the course itself - an old military base that was 65% concrete, which produced blisters and body fatigue and put one competitor on a helicopter out.
- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 1:01:08 to 1:05:34: **Reads listener hallucination accounts from other races**. Dowdle describes his own race hallucinations - teddy bears in a tree, a middle school of kids high-fiving, trees turning into spiders - and reads listener accounts from UTMB, the North Traverse and a Thames country road. New first-hand detail on the Germany race's nostalgia state. New angle: Dowdle hallucinated a constant state of nostalgia on the Germany course, feeling he had been there before.
- [This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von](https://boilpoints.com/u/thispastweekendwtheovon), 2026-09-01, 1:06:40 to 1:11:32: **Profiles Egan's record run at the ultra**. Profiles the field at the Last Soul Ultra through Mike Egan, a bilateral amputee and wheelchair user who competed there; reads a Guinness record item on his 152.37 miles in 24 hours and describes Harvey Lewis clearing about 250 rocks from the course for him. New angle: Mike Egan, a bilateral amputee and wheelchair user, set a personal record of 31 or 32 hours at the Last Soul Ultra.
- [The Joe Rogan Experience](https://boilpoints.com/u/thejoeroganexperience), 2026-10-20, 2:01:01 to 2:04:05: **Recaps Dowdle's 636.5 kilometer win**. Recaps Dowdle's Last Soul Ultra win - the 95 laps, 636.5 kilometers, 94 hours without sleep - and the hunting-the-competition story from Chris Williamson. Adds that Dowdle is on loop 54 of another backyard race right now, but stays inside the retelling.