The Death Valley Challenge

Join the Death Valley Running Team as they take on the toughest run in Virtual Space, Run 146v miles, from the floor of Death Valley, -282.2 feet below sea level in the Badwater Basin, to the top of Mount Whitney the highest point in the contiguous United States, at 14,505 Feet. Or run the double, an out and back mileage of 292 miles.

There are 2 race options!

146v & 292v You'll have 31 days from the day you start to complete the 146v and 62 days from when you start to complete the 292v ( an out & back) 

The event starts September 1st and all miles must be completed by 31 or 62 days after you log your 1st run. The last time to log miles will be on December 1st at 11:59pm.

To do the 146v in 31 days you'll need to average 4.709677 miles a day for 31 days! Or go long and choose the 292.  To do the 292v in 62 days you'll need to average 4.709677 miles a day over the 62 days!

This is a VIRTUAL Event and no actual gathering in Death Valley will take place. The small "v" after the miles is to signify that this is a "Virtual" edition and not the real 146 or 292. 

International athletes who want their swag shipped must choose the add on shipping charge to ship internationally, which I'm finding out can be quite expensive!  If you have a US shipping address and want it shipped there register with that address.

Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.[1] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest.[2]

The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail.

Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.

The pool is not the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is several miles to the west and varies in position, depending on rainfall and evaporation patterns. The salt flats are hazardous to traverse (in many cases being only a thin white crust over mud), and so the sign marking the low point is at the pool instead. The basin was considered the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere until the discovery of Laguna del Carbón in Argentina at −344 ft (−105 m).

Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet. Wikipedia
Elevation: 14,505′
Topo map: USGS Mount Whitney
Location: Sequoia National Park / Inyo National Forest, California, U.S.
Isolation: 1,647 mi (2,651 km)
Mountain range: Sierra Nevada, American Cordillera
Hike distance: 22 mi ( Out & Back ) wikipedia.org

Whitney Trail starts high at 8,600 feet and ascends gently over the course of its 6,000 vertical feet gain in elevation. The average of 550-feet in elevation gain per mile makes for a relatively gentle ascent. For fast hikers, the ascent can be done in about 5 hours, with about 7 to 8 hours for the average hiker.