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Edge of space
100 km
As far as space is above your head.
Run or ride 100 km. The height of the edge of space, laid flat.
- It stands on
- Leap to Australia run, Birkebeiner ride
What it takes · Running
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Leap to Australia
- Weekly distance
- About 80 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long weekends
- About 7 hours of running over two days in a row, 4 times in the last 12 weeks
- Longest run
- At least 4½ hours, at least once in the last 12 weeks
- Taper
- Two easier weeks before the event week
What it takes · Cycling
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Birkebeiner
- Weekly distance
- About 100 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long ride
- 75 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Birkebeiner counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
The world air-records body, the FAI, puts the edge of space at 100 km up. The United States counts from 50 miles, about 80 km. There is no single official line. Source: FAI.
The ladder
Running
- 5 km/
- Forager's day/
- First flight/
- Mawson's last miles/
- 10 km/
- Gold march/
- Hunter's day/
- Nut grove/
- Twelve-miler/
- Wallace's Line/
- Wildebeest's day/
- Half Marathon/
- Toutle avalanche/
- Roland's pass/
- Olympus Mons/
- Dawes's ride/
- Laki fissure/
- Royal Road/
- Legion's march/
- Persistence hunt/
- Norwegian thirty/
- Chalk Gate/
- Racing the horses/
- Rim to rim/
- Barclay's walk/
- Long fall/
- Nijmegen day/
- South Georgia/
- Marathon/
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler/
- 50 km/
- Mauna Loa 1859/
- Kailash kora/
- Chilkoot/
- Leap to Australia/
- Edge of space
Cycling
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler/
- Mauna Loa 1859/
- Kailash kora/
- Chilkoot/
- Jouett's ride/
- Iron Riders' day/
- Birkebeiner/
- Edge of space