700k Lightning Ultimate Virtual Challenge
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Lockdown or no lockdown

Can you complete 700k within a year or more?
Over a year (average of 2k a day) or less than that if you want..
Using live mapping to follow the path of the lightning bolt across Brazil

We have gone virtual, but in a super cool way...
Choose a real life virtual route (UK sights or the real path of the longest ever lightning bolt across southern Brazil) earn our medallion sized medal, optional technical finishers tee and link your fitness apps

Enter here
Run, Cycle, Swim or Walk the length of the longest ever recorded single lightning bolt, 700 kilometres, between now and 2022. As sports events return to action in 2021 and into 2022, log both your training activities and the real life events all towards this ultimate challenge to give yourself a achievable fitness goal for the next year.

​With an Insanely Cool Medal, optional High Quality Technical T-Shirt, Personalised Certificate and FREE Extensions if you need, we have plenty of rewards packed in to keep you motivated. Not only that but we have teamed up with My Virtual Mission to provide a choice of TWO live virtual scenic routes to choose from, the UK route, which takes you from the start at the Olympic Park through the Chiltern Hills, Covent Garden, Chinatown, Big Ben, the O2, London Bridge, Wembley, Richmond Park, Bushy Park, Box Hill, the South Downs, up to the Cotswolds before finishing at the Brecon Beacons. OR you can complete the actual path of the real life lightning bolt, as it was recorded, across southern Brazil.

As well as manually logging towards your accumulative distance you can connect your popular apps such as Strava or Fitbit to do this automatically - what are you waiting for?

​It works out an average of 2k a day, and that's without our FREE extensions!
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I can tackle this
Read about us in the news
  • www.endurance.biz/2020/industry-news/race-pursuits-700k-lightning-ultimate-challenge
  • www.runabc.co.uk/lightning-ultimate-challenge-launched-by-race-pursuit
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Long term goals
Each time you do an activity you will gain more distance towards your final goal, finally earning your high quality technical running t-shirt and our insanely cool super thick and big medal - probably the biggest you have ever got!

This is the ideal challenge to not only give yourself a year long fitness goal but to earn our medal whilst completing other real life sports events as they begin to return to action later in 2021. You can rack up your training miles and log the actual events you do!

You can complete your activities anywhere, anytime, anyplace as with any other virtual event but we prefer to call ourselves a challenge, we want people to come together as soon as it is safe to do so to complete this!
Get fit within a year
This challenges you to complete 700k, the distance recorded for the longest ever lightning bolt, which shot across the Brazilian sky back in 2018, over the course of a year. This is the equivalent distance between Washington D.C and Boston. You may use one or a combination of activities to achieve this total accumulative distance and we encourage you to use real life events, as they return to action, as a way to log longer distances.
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See you on Street View!
Check out your virtual surrounds on Google Street View. See yourself and others on the map and directly on Google Street View
Sign me up!
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Choose your virtual route, the UK or Brazil?

Some of the street view sights along the way include...
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Enter UK
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Enter Brazil
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Use your favourite apps

Log your activities on your Apple watch, Strava, Fitbit, Nike Run Club or manually. You can easily return to the app to log your activities, upload the proof and rack up your distance towards the 700 kilometre goal.

Make sure you download the challenge app for iOS here or Android here and make an account before or after you enter.
Live virtual leaderboard

It is not all about speed, but if you are into that stuff you can compete and compare against other competitors. You can see how far you have gone and how far others have to go.

View weekly, monthly and all time leaderboards. Compare your progress against your team, those you follow or everyone. Filter the leaderboard to compare your progress against other runners, cyclists, walkers or whatever type of exercise that you do.
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Log into your mission at anytime

With one simple click you can view your progression on the live course across the UK that we have created to incentivise you. Check out key sights across Richmond Park, The South Downs and the Brecons, Wales OR southern Brazil instead.

See how far others are on the route or get your friends signed up to give yourself fun competition over the next few months!
Get your rewards
Just like any virtual event, we provide the stuff at the end. However our rewards are just that tiny bit more impressive. A optional high quality 100% recycled technical running t-shirt and a mega medal to add at centre spot to your current collection.

Once your final activity is logged we will send you what you have earn't. Super easy!

Afterwards we will add your finishers photo to our community board.
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Fundraise through GivenGain
We have partnered with The Scoliosis Association UK who are a small charity to raise awareness for them however you are welcome to fundraise for them or any other charity of your choice.

We have teamed up with GivenGain, global non profit leaders in connecting fundraisers with charities. When you enter you can let us know what charity you plan to run for, we will connect them with GivenGain and you will be able to raise money directly for your charity of choice.

​You can view the fundraising leaderboard here

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The same app, as featured in
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"I am motivated by medals and this challenge was perfect for me, I lost weight, got up every morning and managed to complete a couch to 5k as part of my desire to do further distances" - Amy
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