minnie's Moroccan mega-marathon

[mudskipper]

Now that

I've been outed.

He might (sometimes) be an obnoxious fecker, but I reckon this definitely warrants it's own thread.

For those who missed it, it seems that our minnie did a little run in the desert.

Marathon des Sables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Incredibly tough, just day after day of running through sand dunes and rocky ground with a back pack on, limited water, 2200 calories a day, 50 degrees by midday. 50 mile stretch on the 4th day took me so far past what I thought was possible, I would say what I was going through was a controlled nervous breakdown, you are trying to follow people in the dark and you are questioning if they are real, hallucination is pretty common.

An hour after the race they removed the infected skin from my feet whilst I lay on the floor of a tent, I had to get tramadol for the next few days until I got back home. I don't know how more people don't die, someone's heart stopped, another was in a coma for a week and that is just the ones I have heard about. I would love to go back and do it again but I don't think I will be allowed.

Why did you do it apart from proving that you could and because it was there?

I don't really know, I knew it was there for years and it the idea just seemed to grow over time.

It was incredibly fun looking back, I would love to do it again and would recommend anyone ( especially young ) to do it.

Anyway, here is a funny picture of what they drew out of just one blister on the 3rd day.

Fantastic achievement.

It takes a certain something to make BP look normal.

(I reckon MF could still 'ave 'im though. )

[darmstadt]

Here's some more to try:

Ronde des Foies Gras de Mauvezin

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[SueEllen]

NUTTER!


Mind you I know 2 people who have done it......

[mudskipper]

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[BrilloPad]

So looks like we have a CUK relay team. Me on the swim, daveb on the bike, minnie on the run.

[mudskipper]

So looks like we have a CUK relay team. Me on the swim, daveb on the bike, minnie on the run, MF on the pies.

FTFY

[norrahe]

FTFY

Do I have to cook the pies?

[BrilloPad]

Do I have to cook the pies?

We need a whole team to cook that many.

Though we wanted you as one of the cheerleaders.

[norrahe]

We need a whole team to cook that many.

Though we wanted you as one of the cheerleaders.

I think Owly would be better than me, you can also have AtW and Dim Prawn

[OwlHoot]

Flip me, I'm so glad I'm not fit enough to do that.

It's like hard drugs - You'd feel like an absolute vegetable, and probably think like one, if you didn't run 20 miles one day