Running on the Sun is a documentary about the Badwater ultramarathon. This race traverses 135 miles of desert, climbing from a few hundred feet below sea level to the top of Mount Whitney. The runners have to climb over 13,000 feet mixed in with about 4000 feet of descent throughout the course. The cut-off to be considered a finisher is 60 hours.

I enjoyed watching the documentary. It follows about a quarter of the people in the race as they prepare themselves in the months leading up to it, and then follows them as they struggle through the ordeal. Some of them finish, and some of them drop out. You get to see people passing out and hallucinating on the side of the road, or just throwing up now and again as they go along.
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