All I had to say after reading this article was – Why?
They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles…
Zahab was smart enough to ask the crucial question, but he obviously came up with the wrong answer.
Zahab described stopping one recent day for a bathroom break only to discover the wind was blowing so harshly that he couldn’t keep the sand out of his clothes. “And I thought to myself, ‘What the hell am I doing?”‘ he said. But Zahab kept going, as did the other two, never skipping a day. Most days the three ran a total of 44 to 50 miles.
