Run Across Desert
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – 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.
The 2026 “Baker-to-Vegas Challenge Cup Relay,” organized by the Los Angeles Police Revolver & 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.
The Banning, Corona, Hemet, Menifee, Murrieta and Riverside police departments have personnel scheduled to run, along with employees from several Riverside County sheriff’s divisions, the District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Probation. According to www.bakervegas.net, there are a dozen teams from Riverside County on the roster…