I love to follow crazy endurance events and members of this team even plan on participating in some of these events (Baja 1000 , Reach the Beach Relay ), but I think this one has to win the prize as one of the most insane events to participate in. It is called the 4 Deserts and it is four endurance races, each one is a seven-day, 250-kilometer footrace across the world’s largest and most forbidding deserts. The four deserts this year are Atacama in Chile, Gobi in China, Sahara in Egypt and for good measure, the last desert, Antarctica.

 I had been following the Atacama Crossing race online this year which was won by Dean Karnazes and the people who compete/participate in this endurance event are nuts. Besides that you are racing for 7 days straight, in the driest conditions in the world (it is a desert) you have to carry all of your own gear and there are no support crews. Is there a purpose to this type of insanity? If there is someone needs to explain this one to me. I can understand ultramarathons and team endurance events like the Eco-Challenge or whoever is sponsoring it now, but this one is beyond comprehension. I think the only cool thing are the pictures.

 

That being said, if someone can come up with a good reason, and convince me, I will see meet you in the Gobi Desert and run across China.