Death Race For Life Project Sponsored By Long Trail Brewing: My Death Race Candidacy Video (Teaser)

Project Summary

I am dedicating February through July 2010 to my passion for endurance sports and an effort to help the Lance Armstrong Foundation fight cancer. Between March and June I will undertake a bicycle racing tour of multi-day stage races in the western United States. I’ll be racing in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and California. I’ll spend the winter training in Colorado and New Mexico. My tour will serve as conditioning for a final test – the Death Race. On June 24 I will join 99 other selected athletes in Pittsfield, Vermont for the 2010 Death Race.

The Death Race, loosely defined as an “adventure race” is a 24-hour slog that blurs the line between challenge and absurdity. The race consists of an unknown number of tasks spread out over a mountainous course with an unspecified finish line. The route and sampling of mental and physical challenges are also unknown. Previous races have included wood chopping, swimming, running, cycling, mud crawls, memorization tasks, fire building, weight caries, waterfall climbing, and more. The race boasts a 10% finishing rate. The international field of contestants includes ex-special forces, ultra-marathoners, Iron Men, and athletes from other disciplines. You can see the New York Times video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rtMFKpOYqo

My tour will benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation by raising money through direct donations and pledged donations per mile that I ride during the tour. In this blog you can find more information about the tour, my training, my connection to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, donations, and my motivation for starting this project.

Thanks for visiting the blog and supporting my project!

Cully Cavness

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

My Death Race Candidacy Video (Teaser)

The race requires each contestant to submit a video detailing his or her athletic history, training, experience, etc. My video is just about done, and I’ve loaded a short clip of it here (below).

It’s worth your time to watch a few of the videos already on the site. Some are absurd, some are legit. There are a good number of guys from the Marines and Navy SEALS along with a few Iron Men and ultra-marathoners. There is also a guy whose video is just him solving a rubix cube. One guy's video shows him chugging a milk glass of maple syrup, then cuts to a clip of him winning a marathon…