An Extraordinary RaceFor Extraordinary PeopleIn An Extraordinary Place The MDS Legendary is an extraordinary race and adventure that has been taking place in the Moroccan Sahara since 1986. A sublime and mythical desert crossing, the program includes 11 days in Morocco, including 9 in the desert, a course of around …
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An Extraordinary Race
For Extraordinary People
In An Extraordinary Place
The MDS Legendary is an extraordinary race and adventure that has been taking place in the Moroccan Sahara since 1986. A sublime and mythical desert crossing, the program includes 11 days in Morocco, including 9 in the desert, a course of around 250 km spread over 6 stages, to be completed by running or walking.
MdS is a truly gruelling multi-stage adventure through a mythical landscape in one of the world’s most inhospitable environments – the Sahara desert. You have to be self-sufficient and carry all your own food and equipment for the week on your back. Communal goat’s-hair Berber tents are pitched every night but, apart from that you have to take it with you. Water is rationed and if you exceed the ration, you get a time penalty.
In just six days you will run over 250km (156 miles) through endless dunes, over rocky jebels, and across white-hot salt plains. The sun will be your constant enemy with temperatures regularly reaching 50 centigrade. The sand will be your constant companion, clouds of it under your feet, sheets of it stinging your eyes and lots of it chafing where it shouldn’t. The long stage has become a legend in itself. You will run out of a Saharan morning, into the dusk and then the dark, many not finishing the 80+km (52 miles) till well into the next day. Your feet will swell, crack and bleed under the pressure and the heat. But none of this will matter when you cross the finishing line – a hero.
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