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About 80 endurance athletes and their support teams are heading to Death Valley this weekend, gearing up to kick off the 44th running of the Badwater Ultramarathon, which starts Monday night.
It s billed as the toughest road race in the world, and for good reason. The 135-mile trek starts at the lowest point in North America Death Valley s Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level and ends at the trailhead to Mount Whitney, at an elevation of more than 8,000 feet. The fastest time ever recorded was 21 hours, 33 minutes by Japan s Yoshihiko Ishikawa in 2019.
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