{"id":1013,"date":"2007-02-21T06:55:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2007-02-21T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T11:55:06","slug":"running-across-the-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/21\/running-across-the-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Running across the Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been dutifully tracking <a href=\"http:\/\/constanttrek.com\/\">Paula Constant&#8217;s trek<\/a> across Africa, with her tales of carrying one&#8217;s luggage atop a camel&#8217;s hump, avoiding prickly desert flora and fauna, finessing relationships with nomads who&#8217;ve traveled the desert since, well, forever I guess.<br \/>\n<P>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/getoutdoors.com\/goblog\">GoBlog <\/a>links to a story about a group of guys who seem to have decided the proper way to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070220\/ap_on_re_af\/running_the_sahara\">avoid all those getting-in-touch-the-locals dust-ups by jogging the whole way. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It will take time to sink in &#8230; but this is an absolutely once in a life time thing. They say ignorance is bliss, and now that I know how hard this is, I would never consider crossing the Sahara on foot again,&#8221; said American runner Charlie Engle, 44, hours after he and the others completed the run at Egypt&#8217;s Red Sea.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Web site for the run is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/runningthesahara\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><P>(Posted in honor all of us worn-out old farts who&#8217;ve wondered how those people can run up and down all those hills that practically kill us to walk up and down.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been dutifully tracking Paula Constant&#8217;s trek across Africa, with her tales of carrying one&#8217;s luggage atop a camel&#8217;s hump, avoiding prickly desert flora and fauna, finessing relationships with nomads who&#8217;ve traveled the desert since, well, forever I guess.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/21\/running-across-the-sahara\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}