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.

For the Run Sydney special challenge, you are up against Adrienne Beames of Australia. Beames is often accredited as the first female to break the 3 hour marathon time back in 1971. We are looking for you to complete your marathon time in under 3 hours to defeat Adrienne Beames. Submit your 10 times through your running portal, calculate and submit your marathon time. You will need to run each of your 2.62 miles in under 18 minutes each day and you will complete this challenge, defeat Adrienne Beames marathon time and be added above Beames in our leader board for the Sydney Virtual Marathon. This challenge is not required to obtain your Run Sydney Bronze medal but will give the special challenge virtual medal in your runners portal and on the leaderboards.

To complete the special challenge for Run Athens you must complete your marathon time in under 3:18 minutes to beat the 1896 Summer Olympics winner Charilaos Vasilakos (3:18:00) of Greece who was the first man to win a competitive marathon race. Submit your times to your online portal and calculate your marathon time. You will need to run your 1.048 miles in 6.9 minutes or quicker each day to complete this challenge, defeat Charilaos Vasilakos marathon time and be added to our special event leader board for the Run Athens Virtual Marathon Major. Doing this challenge is not not required to obtain your Run Athens Bronze medal. This is for the special team leader boards, which will put you in contention for rewards and prizes from our sponsors and partners.