Running through the Sahara

At the moment, out in the Sahara desert in Egypt, there is a race going on, part of the 4deserts series (http://www.4deserts.com/). It is the Sahara Race and consists of 250km of running through the desert over 6 stages. This is serious endurance racing through some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. The heat can get up to unbelievable levels as you can imagine and running up and down sand dunes is not exactly easy going. Today is the 5th stage and is the longest at 100km.

The reason I'm writing about this today is a good mate is racing and so far has won 4 out of 4 stages, an incredible record when you consider some of the hardened endurance athletes running in this race (one being Dean Karnazes, who famously ran 50 marathons in 50 days). This is just a shout out to anyone reading this to check out Ryan's blog at http://www.ryansandes.com/ and leave a few messages of encouragement for him. As I write this blog, he is somewhere in the middle of a 100km day in serious heat, so I'm sure he can use all the encouragement we can throw at him!

Thanks!

Vince