Supreme Agony and Ecstasy at Badwater

Badwater is a madman's march, a footrace through the summer heat of the hottest spot in America. It extends 135 miles from a stinking water hole on the floor of Death Valley to a piney oasis 8,300 feet up the side of Mt. Whitney. The course is nothing but asphalt and road gravel. Feet and knees and shins ache like they are being whacked with tire irons.

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15 July 99 -- Badwater, 135 miles, 06:00, Badwater, U.S.A. (Matt Frederick, 4801 Stoddard Road, Modesto, CA 95356-9319, 209-545-2543).

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