NO MORE DESERTS

I am really fed up with the sand: the sand in my shoes, the sand between my teeth and the sand between my buttocks – or so said Christian Schiester.This was what I swore to myself following the Marathon des Sables in April 2003 – to myself and my family. I still remember well why I said it. However, Racing the Planet suddenly came up with this 4 Deserts Cup, a concept you simply cannot ignore if you believe you are a true extreme marathon runner. The appeal of running through four deserts – about 250 kilometers a week for each – of overcoming the most diverse and extreme climate and geological conditions in the word was just too great. These are challenges that are so unbelievably cool and that relate exactly to my lifetime goal of „running the world“ – to run the world, to run in the most beautiful, the most dangerous and wildest regions of this planet