Running In The Heat: Hot Weather Running Tips For Extreme Athletes - A free resource for hot weather runners.
Description: The Darth Valley Challenge is a one-mile sprint through Death Valley on the hottest day of the year... dressed as Darth Vader. Obviously.
The Darth Valley Challenge is very simple. You dress up in a Star Wars costume, you head down to Death Valley on the hottest day of the year, and you run a mile as fast as possible! (Nobody said it had to make sense… and of course, usually we don’t know if it will be the hottest day – but in 2013 we were watching the forecast.) Darth Vader’s record is 6:13 for the mile… in 2013 it was a world-record June temperature of 129F but he still managed 6:36!
The numbers on the right represent Darth’s times so far, as a percentage of a 10-minute mile. Lower is better, of course!
His name’s Jon Rice and he’s originally from England. Jon is beginning to feel that at 43 and 218lbs, a 6-minute mile might be a bit tough…
Running In The Heat: Hot Weather Running Tips For Extreme Athletes - A free resource for hot weather runners.