Flying out in a week

This blog is simply to track my emails - which will be short and random - during the 2008 edition of the Marathon des Sables in Morocco. 245k over 7 days, billed as the toughest footrace on earth, the 800 odd entrants run in temperatures raging from 0C to 50C across the Sahara Desert carrying nearly everything we need for 7 days - everything except water.

In past years there has been no more than 1 or 2 Aussies entered, but this year seems to be a bit of a magnet - 22 Australian starters, including 3 females, as of tonight.

Rough timeline has me leaving Sydney on Monday 24th March, arriving Marrakech 24th, getting to the start over the Atlas Mountains on the 28th, Stage 1 on the 30th, then 7 days of the race. Back to Casablanca afterwards, and home by the 14th April.

Links to the race site and daily results, as well as the Coolrunning discussion thread are on the right hand side of the blog.

My race number is 477.