Backyard Ultra World Championships

True Messages was created to continue the ‘Messages’ and projects began by Micah True (El Caballo Blanco) in honor and support of the Raramuri peoples and culture. Most important in all our Messages and projects is discovering opportunities. Opportunities that create options, opportunities that create choices, and opportunities that allow our friends to show and share the beauty and wisdoms of their culture.

We are truly honored to have helped the Backyard Ultra Championships for Mexico come to life. This platform has given our friends in the Sierra Tarahumara a chance to not only show their special endurance running abilities, but also the simple, humble and inclusive community approach they bring to such challenges.

We helped create the Championship in 2020 and the first bi-annual event included 25 countries with 15 top qualified athletes per country competing simultaneously around the world. Team Mexico consisted of 14 runners from the Sierra Tarahumara and Mexico’s top endurance runner Marco from Mexico City. That first Championship found Mexico finishing in 8th place team, but more amazingly we had 3 runners in top ten worldwide (Pedro Parra, Miguel Lara and Juan Contreras.

This year 37 countries lined up to see which team would take the title. The US won with Mexico finishing super strong with a top 10 spot. We also placed three runners on the ‘All World” team.

True Messages organized the Championship event and sponsored the 6 Raramuri athletes that had qualified for Equipo Mexico (Team Mexico). Our motto “Juntos Corremos Por Siempre” (Together we run Forever) was inspired by the Raramuri tenet: “When you run on the Earth and with the Earth you can run forever”

The messages continue….

If you able, please help us continue to honor these Messages and this community www.truemessages.org

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