Complete 8 5k’s in a month, form a team of 8 and do 1 each or take on the full marathon distance in one to complete the Run New York Virtual Challenge!

*Each participating member must obtain an entry, 10% of entry fees go to charity. We are working with a host of amazing charities who are putting together teams in all of the Virtual Marathons. If you are interested in joining one of the charity teams visit our charity listings pages. International entry is for someone not from the UK and NI.*

** If you are joining us from outside of the UK and want your medal shipped to an international address, please select the ‘International Any Time Challenge’ as this incorporates the international postage and packaging fee.  

Run New York Virtual 

The 8 x 8 challenge can be completed in a team of 8 or on your own. You need to complete 3.275 miles (5.27km) every day for 8 days to complete this individually. In a team, you are splitting the burden amongst friends or work colleagues and the challenge to record an official time is to submit all of your times on the same day (we do accept times on different days for your medals but your times will be recorded as unofficial).  By submitting your 8 x 3.275 miles (5.27 Km), you will amass your marathon distance and the runners portal will calculate your marathon time rewarding you with the Run New York Silver medal.

You can also split the distance up in one of the following ways:

• 26.1 miles as a individual
• 13.1 miles in a pair (13.1 Miles per person)
• 10.54 miles in a team of 4 (10.54 Km per person)
• 5.27Km in a team of 8 (5.27Km per person)
• 2.62 miles in a team of 10 (2.62miles per person)
• 1.048 miles in a team of 25 (1.048 miles per person)

Difficulty

Silver Medal

Age

14+ or 5 and over if accompanied by an adult

Evidence

Official Times – To submit an official time you must use Garmin Connect, Strava, Map My Run, Nike App or any GPS tracking device. Take a picture of your tracker and submit via your online console.

Unofficial Times – You can submit evidence to us by simply keeping a daily log. At the end sign the log, take a photo and upload it to your Virtual Marathon Series online console. You will receive a medal and our congratulations but your time will only be recorded as an unofficial time.

Run New York Special Challenge

For the Run New York special challenge, you up are up against Ryan Reynolds. The Hollywood star who has appeared in a number of great films over the years including the X-Men, Deadpool, Green Lantern, Just Friends and Van Wilder. Ryan Reynolds completed the New York Marathon in a very respectable 3 hours and 50 minutes in 2008. Your mission is to complete each of your 8 x 3.275 miles runs in under 28 minutes each day to defeat Ryan Reynolds and complete our Run New York Special Challenge. As a team, each team member is required to run their 3.275 miles in under 28 minutes each to ensure the teams combined score comes in under 3:50 minutes. Submit your 8 times through your running portal, calculate and submit your marathon time. Completing this is not required to obtain your Run New York Silver medal. This is for the special team leader boards, which will put you in contention for rewards and prizes from our sponsors and partners.

Rewards and Prizes

Find yourself in the top 5 on the leader board and earn yourself rewards and prizes from our partners at RunThrough Kit. Make sure to keep an eye on where you rank so you can re-enter if you are knocked out of the top 5. Once you have signed up as well as our leaderboard we will have special challenges with prizes, for this event the special challenge.