3 ultra-athletes run 4,000 miles across Sahara

3 Runners. 6 Countries.
100 Days. 4,000 Miles.

Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_re_af/running_the_...

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/runningthesahara