Red On

Red On are not an events company that stumbled into the endurance space. They are a team built from the ground up on a foundation that most race directors simply cannot replicate: over 100 years of combined military and coaching experience, assembled with one clear purpose. To unlock the potential of everybody.

From first-timers finding their feet to elite performers chasing the edge of what is possible, Red On builds events designed to be the most inclusive endurance experiences in the world. Premium environments where community, competition and raw human performance converge. Their ethos was held from the first briefing to the final loop.

Run With Precision

The Red On Backyard Ultra: Tactical Division was delivered with the kind of precision you would expect from people who have operated in environments where getting it wrong is not an option. Course marking, timing, athlete welfare, loop management. Every moving part ran on schedule and on standard. The operational tempo was calm, deliberate and controlled.

If there were any imperfections on the day, they were the kind that only someone with special reconnaissance experience would have caught. To every athlete on course, to every spectator on the sideline, and to every corner of the endurance community watching, this was a first-class, seamlessly executed event.

The Scene Has Been Put On Notice

Red On have the team, the infrastructure, the ethos and, critically, the competitors to build one of the largest global endurance events in the world. This was not a trial run. This was a statement. This team always execute the plan.

An event run to this standard deserves kit built to the same standard. That is where YOMP Co. came in.

YOMP Co. 10KG Weighted Vest

Designed and Tested in the UK. Proven in the Field.

We have been saying it for two years; and at the Red On Backyard Ultra: Tactical Division, it got its ultimate test.

British engineering does not need to shout. It just needs to perform. YOMP Co. has always taken what the market offers, studied it hard, and built something better. Gear designed for athletes who train under load, not for athletes who train for the photo. Every athlete on the start line at this event wore the YOMP Co. 10KG Weighted Vest. Every single one. That is not a sponsorship talking point. That is a field test at scale, in one of the most demanding formats endurance sport has to offer.

26 Laps. One Winner. One Record.

Mike Jones from Loughborough did not just win this event. He completed an astonishing 26 laps to claim first place in what was, by any measure, one of the most stacked fields the Backyard Ultra scene has ever assembled. An unofficial world record. A performance that belongs in the history books.

Mike wore the YOMP Co. vest from lap one to lap twenty-nine. When the last competitor standing has your kit on his back, the product has spoken for itself.

What the Athletes Said

We will not pretend there was not a love-hate relationship developing somewhere around lap 10. That is not a product failure. That is a Backyard Ultra. But when athletes came off course and reached out to tell us how the kit had held up, that meant something. Because these were not casual runners. These were competitors who had spent hours at the outer edge of what their bodies could take, and the kit was not the thing that stopped them.

YOMP Co. x Red On

This partnership does not end here. YOMP Co. and Red On are going again. Twice.

YOMP Co. will be there for both. Same commitment 'to deliver the best load carry kit in the UK.'

If you want to be part of it, the time to start training is now.