This is a follow-up interview (second interview in a month) with Jonathan Gunderson by NBC 11 TV in San Francisco, CA regarding his participation in the 2006 and upcoming 2007 Badwater Ultramarathon with NBC TV in the Bay Area in California. The interview was with Daryl Hawks and shown on NBC 11 TV sports with Raj Matthai. The Badwater Ultramarathon is the World's Most Extreme Race, 135 miles from Death Valley (Badwater) to Mt. Whitney Portal, on July 23-25, 2007. Air temperatures get close to 130 degrees F and road temperatures are between 190 to 200 degrees F. The race goes from the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere to half way up Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the U.S. lower 48 states. Jonathan is raising money for World Harvest Mission (www.worldharvestmission.org) and their work with children in East Africa through the race and his website, www.seegundyrun.com. Go to www.seegundyrun.com for the link to donate and more info on Jonathan's running adventures.

Crewing Dean through 2007 Badwater Ultramarathon

Video footage of Adalberto FLACO Mendoza from start to finish at this year's 135 mile race from the lowest point in the USA at Badwater Death Valley to the base of Mt. Whitney, tallest mountain in the lower 48.

Every year the athletes, their crews and the race staff gather at the end of the race in Lone Pine for pizza, camaraderie and the party video.

Team Injinji - David Goggins 5th place @ Badwater Ultramarathon 2006 The world toughest foot race.

This is an interview with Jonathan Gunderson by NBC 11 TV in San Francisco, CA regarding his participation in the 2006 and upcoming 2007 Badwater Ultramarathon. The Badwater Ultramarathon is the World's Most Extreme Race, 135 miles from Death Valley (Badwater) to Mt. Whitney Portal, on July 23-25, 2007. Air temperatures get close to 130 degrees F and road temperatures are between 190 to 200 degrees F. The race goes from the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere to half way up Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the U.S. lower 48 states. Jonathan is raising money for World Harvest Mission (www.worldharvestmission.org) and their work with children in East Africa through the race and his website, www.seegundyrun.com.

Eighty-five runners from fourteen countries and twenty American states ran 135 miles non-stop from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney on July 24-26, 2006 in the 29th 135-mile Kiehl's Badwater Ultramarathon. Placing first for the second year in a row was Scott Jurek, who was nearly beaten by a previously unknown rookie named Akos Konya, a citizen of Hungary who resides in Oceanside, CA. The start line is at Badwater, Death Valley, which marks the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere at 280' (85m) below sea level. Following 135 miles of paved roads, the race finishes at Mt. Whitney Portal at 8360' (2533m). The Badwater course covers three mountain ranges for a total of 13,000' (3962m) of cumulative vertical ascent and 4,700' (1433m) of cumulative descent. The Portal is the trailhead to the Mt. Whitney summit, the highest point in the contiguous United States. Competitors travel through places or landmarks with names like Mushroom Rock, Furnace Creek, Salt Creek, Devil's Cornfield, Devil's Golf Course, Stovepipe Wells, Keeler and Lone Pine. The race began with the traditional wave start, with 26 runners beginning at 6am, 28 at 8am, and 32 at 10am. This is done because of lack of parking at the start line and, even more so, to minimize congestion of runners, crew, and vehicles on the roadway in the National Park. Because hosting food and drink checkpoints along the side of the road in this forbidding environment is impossible, each entrant brings their own support vehicle and at least two support crew members to tend to all their needs.