Marathon des Sables
For an event given the cachet of ‘The Toughest Footrace on Earth’ no amount of preparation can completely prepare you for the journey ahead. The ability to adapt is essential and there are no shortcuts in the Legendary Marathon des Sables. You don’t enter an event like this expecting fluffy pillows and I had spent almost three years researching, planning and training and I was fortunate to have several incredible mentors who had completed MDS before. Little did I know that by the end of the first stage, the Sahara will have opened wide, chewed a few times and vomited me back out.
FRI 08 OCT: MARATHON STAGE 5 – ‘FINISH LINE’
42.2Km, 12H00 CUT OFF Eat. Sleep. Run. Repeat. Our rest day served its purpose. Tail feathers plumped, bodies re-charged, energised, calorie boosted. Diarrhoea and vomiting appear to be at least under control. Doc Trotters have worked their magic, patching up…
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THU 07 OCT: ‘REST DAY’ (or no rest for those still on the Long Stage)
82.5Km, 32H00 CUT OFF Bivouac four is approximately one hundred and ten kilometres south of Errachidia, three hundred and twenty five kilometres east of Marrakesh and eighty five kilometres west of the Algerian border. We have covered almost one hundred…
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WED 06 OCT: ‘LONG STAGE’
82.5Km, 32H00 CUT OFF A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway For an event given the cachet of ‘The Toughest Footrace on Earth’ no amount of preparation can completely prepare you for the journey ahead. The ability…
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TUE 05 OCT: LIAISON STAGE 3 – ‘SAND BROTHERS’
37.1Km, 11H00 CUT OFF Analysis of Stage One made for uncomfortable reading and yet the fallout from the enormous dunes of Stage Two cast an even darker shadow. Forlorn hopes for a drop in temperature hadn’t materialised. The legion of…
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