One sock, built for a race with no finish line. An amber jacquard cuff reading RBYU 6.7KM, ONE MORE LOOP woven across the forefoot, and the øat mark on the toe. Left and right specific, thermoregulating, made in Australia. Send it.
$30 AUD, or $25.50 with code RBYU15 at checkout on oatrunning.com.au
Black crew, cut and knitted for long hours. The cuff carries an amber jacquard band repeating RBYU 6.7KM, the loop distance you will be running every hour until you stop. Across the forefoot, in white, the only two words that matter out there: ONE MORE LOOP.
Checkout happens on the Øat Running store, so your order, postage and returns are handled by them. Choose your size there, then enter RBYU15 in the discount field for 15% off.
It started the way most good things in running do. Two athletes we trust would not shut up about a pair of socks.
The referral came from our ambassadors Thibault and Dan. Both of them already trained and raced in Øat Running performance socks, both of them swore by them, and both of them said the same thing in different words: if RBYU is going to put its name on kit, put it on these.
That is a better product test than any spec sheet. A backyard ultra is unusually cruel to socks. You are not running one long effort, you are running the same 6.7056 km loop every hour, over and over, through heat, dust, dew and dark, with your feet never fully drying out and your shoes going back on again and again. Anything that rubs at hour four will end your race by hour twenty.
Nobody drops out of a backyard ultra because they ran out of fitness. They drop out because something small went wrong, repeatedly.
So we went to Øat with the two details we wanted woven in, not printed on. The 6.7056 km loop distance around the cuff, and ONE MORE LOOP across the forefoot, where you will see it every time you sit down in the tent and change your shoes.
The rest is theirs: the anatomical left and right fit, the thermoregulating yarn, the mesh support zones, the blister minded moisture wicking. We did not ask them to change the sock. We asked them to sign it.
Premium. Sustainable. Fast. Three words, and they mean them in that order.
Øat Running started because four friends wanted to wear premium and sustainable running gear that was not the same old cheap stuff from the big brands, as they tell it on their own site. The label was later relaunched on the Fleurieu Peninsula by two passionate running friends, and it still reads “designed in Melbourne by runners for runners”.
The socks are made in partnership with an Australian business in New South Wales working to high sustainability and performance standards. Not a drop shipped blank with a logo slapped on it, which matters when the product has to survive twenty four hours of the same loop.
Their line on it is “made for you to write the next chapter in your run story”. Ours is one more loop. Theirs is Send It. On race day at Loveday, those are the same instruction.
Øat Running · oatrunning.com.au · partner of the Riverland Backyard Ultra
Crew height, so the cuff band sits where a camera and a crew can both see it.
Every sock in the pair is knitted for one foot. The left is a left and the right is a right, shaped to the foot so nothing bunches or slides when you are lacing up at 3am under a head torch with cold hands. The arch and forefoot get mesh support zones where a normal tube sock just has more fabric.
The yarn is chosen to thermoregulate, which in Riverland terms means a March afternoon in the high thirties and a river valley night that gets cold enough to need sleeves. Moisture wicking is the part that actually decides your race, because wet skin is where blisters come from, and a blister at hour six is a slow countdown to a DNF.
Care is simple and it is worth doing properly. Cold wash, in the laundry bag that comes with them, never in the dryer and never under an iron, as set out in the Øat Running FAQ.
Two sizes on this run: Medium and Large. When we sell out, that is it for the first drop.
6.7056 kilometres. Every hour. Until one runner is left and everyone else is a DNF.
A backyard ultra has no finish line and no course record you can plan for. You run a 6.7056 km loop, you're back inside the hour, and then the bell goes and you do it again. Miss the start, miss the cutoff, and you're out. The last person standing wins. Everyone else, every single one of them, is recorded as a did-not-finish.
The inaugural Riverland Backyard Ultra starts at midday on 13 March 2027 at Loveday, on private property in South Australia's Riverland, with a 400-runner capacity and a $15,000 prize pool. It runs under naming rights from Tarkine Athletics. Two words carry the whole thing: one more loop.
Oat.running X Riverland Backyard Ultra. Amber RBYU 6.7KM cuff, ONE MORE LOOP forefoot, left and right specific. Medium and Large.
Buy now for $30Medium and Large only · $30 a pair, or $25.50 with code RBYU15 · choose your size and check out on oatrunning.com.au
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