{"id":208458,"date":"2026-03-07T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:59:11","slug":"local-teams-confirmed-for-legendary-law-enforcement-run-across-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208458\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Teams Confirmed for Legendary Law Enforcement Run Across Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Riverside County teams slated to join a legendary relay race later this month that takes competitors across 120 miles of desert, ending in Las Vegas, were confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 \u201cBaker-to-Vegas Challenge Cup Relay,\u201d organized by the Los Angeles Police Revolver &amp; Athletic Club, is expected to draw upwards of 3,000 runners from public safety agencies throughout California, a few other states and the federal government on the weekend of March 28-29. A total of 276 teams have signed up.<\/p>\n<p>The Banning, Corona, Hemet, Menifee, Murrieta and Riverside police departments have personnel scheduled to run, along with employees from several Riverside County sheriff\u2019s divisions, the District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Department of Probation. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakervegas.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.bakervegas.net<\/a>, there are a dozen teams from Riverside County on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-leg race begins along state Route 127, roughly 25 miles north of Baker, California, traverses Highway 178, into Pahrump, Nevada, and from there straight onto West Desert Inn Road, then onto South Valley View Boulevard, ending in the parking lot of the Rio Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred and twenty miles of pavement, hot days and cold nights, blood, sweat, pride, honor \u2014 that\u2019s what the world\u2019s most prestigious and unique law enforcement foot race is all about,\u201d according to an LAPRAC statement.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will head out in waves \u2014 or \u201cflights\u201d \u2014 with the fastest competitors leaving later.<\/p>\n<p>Since it began in 1985, the relay has become the seminal law enforcement race of the year, according to organizers. It was suspended in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID lockdowns, but has otherwise stayed on track during the other years since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s first-place team, from the California Highway Patrol \u201cElite\u201d unit, completed its run in 12 hours, 31 minutes and 55 seconds. The last-place team, from the Lodi Police Department, made it in 22 hours, 36 minutes and 29 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside County sheriff\u2019s \u201clead\u201d team landed in the top 10 at 14 hours, 31 minutes and 38 seconds, according to results. That was the best time-in of any team from within the county.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competitors traveling long distances to participate include teams from Oklahoma, Texas, New York and the Navajo Indian Reservation Department of Public Safety in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Riverside County teams slated to join a legendary relay race later this month that takes competitors across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[87305,44006,14299,48,52,51,19986,972,47,50,49,14826],"class_list":["post-208458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-confirmed","tag-desert","tag-enforcement","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-legendary","tag-local","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}