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I was surely the only runner during the Marathon des Sables for whom it was a training run. I desperately needed desert experience to be prepared for the desert section of the Pacific Crest Trail that I was going to run that summer. I learned a lot during this beautiful week and managed to end with the elite 50 runners, at a nice 37th place out of 1250 participants. This was a great preparation for the upcoming P.C.T., but it was scary too, as every day I was going to need to do the distance of the long stage of the Marathon des Sables. I pushed up my training volume and went to the US later that summer for the Pacific Crest Trail run.
