Category Archives: Marathon des Sables

Marathon des Sables – starting your training

Posted on 23/05/2013 by Lecky

You’ve entered the 2014 MdS and you need to start training.  How do you begin?
First think – how do I want to do?

  1. Just get round
  2. Get round but feel good
  3. Get round and do well
  4. Win

Then think – what do I know about how it feels to run day after day? Read more

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Core training video

Posted on 23/05/2013 by Lecky

There is a good core training video from pponline here. Read more

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Marathon des Sables – a coach’s perspective

Posted on 24/04/2013 by Lecky

The end of the journey

At 11.32:11 on Saturday 13th April 2013 Martin and Angela White crossed the final finishing line of the Marathon des Sables.  They had run and walked 232 Km across the rocks, mountains and dunes of Morocco in an overall time of 46H35’18”.  Read more

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Marathon des Sables training – two competitors’ views

Posted on 22/04/2013 by Lecky

We are writing this trying to process the most intense, insane, painful, joyful week of our lives.  A week in which, both of us finished the 28th Marathon des Sables.

We are confident that in the subconscious of every MdS participant there is a small but very real flicker of doubt. Read more

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