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These runners don’t look like your average marathoner. The temperature is already 93 degrees Fahrenheit and expected to peak to 118 degrees by 3 p.m. The road cuts through 200 square miles of salt flats, where delicate salt crystals have formed a thin crust over layers of mud in the valley’s Badwater Basin.

A group of runners line up along an asphalt road.

EDT | Carlos Alberto Gomes De Sá of Portugal has been named winner of the the 2013 Badwater Ultramarathon. Oswaldo Lopez of Madera, Calif., is cooled by his crew as he runs in the AdventureCORPS Badwater 135 ultra-marathon race on Jin Death Valley National Park, Calif.