Runners ready?? Start your watch and climb aboard the airplane for the ride up to 13,500 feet where you will leap out of a moving plane to begin your run. The 120mph, 2 mile (approx 10k feet) free-fall will last 50 seconds before you pull the parachute on your tandem …
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Runners ready?? Start your watch and climb aboard the airplane for the ride up to 13,500 feet where you will leap out of a moving plane to begin your run. The 120mph, 2 mile (approx 10k feet) free-fall will last 50 seconds before you pull the parachute on your tandem skydive and quietly and calmly float (3,000 feet) back down to the safety of earth. Upon landing you will immediately climb out of your parachute and begin running to complete the world’s first ever “Skydiving Ultra”!
We can pretty much assure that you will get a PR for your fastest mile and we can guarantee no other race has a steeper first couple of miles. The course is a single 7.2-“ish” mile loop around the airport providing access to your drop bags every each loop as well as another aid station at the halfway point. There is NO shade at all (bring a hat and sunscreen). The surfaces are a mix of dirt and grass roads and take you through local sugar cane fields, along canals and offer plenty of opportunity to mingle with Florida wildlife!
The specific logistics of getting a large group of people in the air and into a race such as this is very challenging. Start times and specifics might change slightly. Camping, bathrooms and showers will be available on site. We will also be able to offer a “skydive only” option with a discounted rate to friends or family that might want to come and jump and not run. We will have games and activities for the kids and non-runners as well. It’s set on a contained grassy lot with no traffic so you can bring the family, some lawn chairs and spectate the landing zone and runners. Makes for a perfect day!
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Skydive ultra is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The small, family-sized race event is held in Clewiston, Fl and offers distances from 6.2 miles, half, full marathon, up to 200miles. A … MORE
Skydive ultra is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The small, family-sized race event is held in Clewiston, Fl and offers distances from 6.2 miles, half, full marathon, up to 200miles. A lot of the runners and their support crew people were camping around the airfield and for those who wanted the could do a pre-race skydive. The organisation that highly depends on winds and weather ran super super smooth and I was very excited to do my very first tandem skydive. With very experienced instructors that came from all over the states for that weekend it was a unique experience.
I had about 60min after the jump to unwind. The race runs in about 7.2 miles loops around the airfield. So the half and full marathons are a bit longer than the official 13.1/ 26.2 miles. With changing undergrounds from sandy, rocky to gras, it felt very much like a trail race and will not be your fastest time. Two support stations with water, Gatorade, coke and all kind of food were set up. Big medals and belt buckets for the 100m, 150m and 200m finishers. No awards.
The vibe of the experience was amazing, skydivers and runners are a special kind of people- skydiving runners are… go figure yourself!