Still hot – and still having fun!
If you want to truly experience the Sahara, taking a 10 1/2 hour, 75 km run is the way to do it. Basically you see the desert from sunrise to just after sunset. Dunes, Jebels [mountains], saltflats, dried riverbeds, Berber women herding goats, camels in the shade of a tree, Berber men in the shade of a tree, saltflats, Dunes, children in the middle of now here cheering you on and grabbing your hands to pull you up the dune, Monument valley type mountains, Ancient coral bed [the sahara was an ocean at one time], you basically see it all.
You experience the heat as well. Running it is not too bad but when you stop, the sun just burns! You would think that you would have a lot of time to think while running for 10+ hours, but it seems to come down to managing your survival – water, your speed, is it better to walk fast or run?. Like a skier looking for a good line and fresh snow, you are doing the same with the sand. LYM
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