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The Running Week: Desert Runners on List of Top 10 Must-Watch Movies for Runners
Aug 11 2026 The 2013 documentary "Desert Runners" follows amateur athletes as they attempt to complete the 4 Deserts race series, running ultra-marathons across the world's most challenging terrain.
TrailRunner by Outside: She Was the Smartest, the Strongest, and the Fastest—and Joined the Ranks of Women Winning Major Ultras Outright
Aug 07 2026 Early this summer, Oregon-based ultramarathoner Elise Lagerstrom did something unprecedented: she became the first woman in history to win outright one of the Four Deserts Ultramarathon Series races—a series of 250K, week-long stage races that began in 2002.
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Bay of Plenty woman to honour late friend with 250km Namib Desert challenge
Jul 27 2026 Karen Neubrandt will participate in Racing the Planet Namibia, a self-supported 250km ultramarathon in the Namib Desert. A Bay of Plenty woman will trek 250km across the Namib Desert next month in a challenge inspired by a late friend who helped her believe she could achieve the impossible.
SunLive (New Zealand): Plane crash survivor tackles Namib Race
Jul 27 2026 Karen Neubrandt, 62, said she was also using the journey to “square things with the Namib” and “honour the second chance” given her when she and her sister survived a plane crash there three years ago.
Sächsische Zeitung: Tina Guenther places 2nd at the Gobi March 2026
Jul 18 2026 Sächsische Zeitung: Tina Guenther places 2nd at the Gobi March 2026
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Mundo Deportivo: Santi Torres
Jul 08 2026 Santi Torres, 29 años, ultracorredor: "Somos capaces de bastante más de lo que creemos, pero para descubrirlo hay que dejar de escaparse de la incomodidad"
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UltraRun: Gobi March in Mongolia, 20th Edition
Jul 07 2026 Mongolia, ocho años después, sigue consiguiendo sorprenderme
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CGTN: Why China is ultrarunning's next frontier
Jun 04 2026 One of the earliest milestones in China's ultrarunning story came in 2002 with the launch of the Gobi March, a multi-day race across the Gobi Desert. The event introduced a new idea: endurance sport could be about exploration, not competition. More than two decades later, that philosophy continues to shape a growing ultra-running community stretching from Yunnan's mountain trails to Xinjiang's desert routes.
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betevecat: Discover more about diabetes and how Bea Garcia has combined it with life and long-distance races in self-sufficiency in the harshest deserts in the world, even in Antarctica.
Mar 27 2026 Córrer a l'Antàrtida és tot un repte. Fer una cursa de 250 quilòmetres en sis dies amb diabetis, una proesa. I més amb les particularitats d'una cursa amb neu, que la Bea Garcia va haver de preparar en una cambra frigorífica a Mercabarna. Descobreix més coses sobre la diabetis i com la Bea Garcia l'ha compaginada a la vida i en curses de llarga distància en autosuficiència als deserts més durs del món, fins i tot ...
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The Wall Street Journal: Excerpt from Ken Rideout's Memoir
Mar 01 2026 In his new memoir, ‘Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard,’ runner Ken Rideout relives a physically grueling 2023 ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert.