Event Description
🏴☠️ THE GREAT ESCAPE
Hunt for the Cursed Treasure | 60-Mile Virtual Run/Walk Adventure
A mysterious map has resurfaced, revealing the location of a legendary treasure lost long ago. But this is no ordinary treasure hunt.
Your mission is to follow the map, uncover its clues, collect what you’ll need along the way, and discover what has been waiting at the end of the trail.
This isn’t your typical virtual mileage challenge. Over 60 miles, the story unfolds as you travel across a weathered Treasure Map. Your adventure begins before the first mile when the mysterious map resurfaces and starts your hunt. From there, something new is waiting every three miles.
You’ll uncover clues and riddles, make choices, complete challenges, collect story artifacts, and unlock milestone and achievement badges. Some checkpoints will challenge you. Others will reveal another piece of the mystery. And just when you think you know where the adventure is leading...
the map may have other plans.
🗺️ YOUR 60-MILE ADVENTURE
Your journey begins with the discovery of the Treasure Map, followed by 20 milestone checkpoints, one every three miles.
Along the way, you’ll:
🔎 Uncover clues and riddles that move the story forward
📸 Encounter fun photo challenges along your journey
🗝️ Discover and collect story artifacts
🧭 Make choices that shape parts of your adventure
🏅 Unlock milestone and achievement badges
💰 Search for the legendary treasure
🌊 Discover what happens when you finally reach the end of the map
Some secrets are better discovered along the way. Your complete adventure, clues, and treasure location won’t be revealed until you reach them.
Complete your miles anywhere and at your own pace. Your next checkpoint is never more than three miles away.
🏅 REGISTRATION INCLUDES
- Exclusive The Great Escape: Hunt for the Cursed Treasure finisher medal
- Custom event-themed physical Tyvek race bib
- Printable digital finisher certificate
- Illustrated 60-mile Treasure Map with 20 checkpoint locations
- Printable Adventurer's Satchel to track the items you collect throughout your journey
- 20 milestone checkpoints plus your starting map discovery
- Clues, riddles, choices, challenges, and story discoveries
- Collectible milestone and achievement badges
🏴☠️ COMMUNITY CONNECTION
Share your discoveries, photos, milestones, and favorite moments with the R3 Run Club Facebook Community or R3 Strava Club, and follow along with other adventurers making their way across the map.
Sharing is always optional, but it’s a fun way to experience the adventure alongside the community. When sharing on social media, tag @R3RunClubVR and use #R3TheGreatEscape so we can follow along.
This challenge is for walkers, runners, and everyday athletes of all experience levels.
Complete your miles outdoors, on a treadmill, at the gym, on vacation, or wherever your adventure takes you.
✔ Complete 60 miles
✔ Participate from anywhere
✔ Move at your own pace
✔ Walk, run, hike, or mix it up
✔ Discover something new every three miles
Follow the map. Trust what you collect. See where the adventure takes you.
📦 SHIPPING DETAILS
Medals and commemorative race bibs will begin shipping October 17, 2026.
Registrations received after October 17 will generally ship within one week of registration.
Your medal and bib will ship together. You do not need to complete the challenge before your race package is mailed.
