Running Through Sand
An Ageing Comedian?s Ill-Thought-Out Ultra in the Sahara
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 21 May 2026
- ISBN 9781399404013
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x153 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 700
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250KM IN THE SAHARA DESERT. 2 MONTHS TRAINING. CAN AGEING RUNNER AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PAUL TONKINSON CONQUER THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST FOOT RACE?
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'A book full of passion, humour and an unexpected spiritual depth. I loved every page' Tim Vine
250KM IN THE SAHARA DESERT. 2 MONTHS TRAINING. CAN AGEING RUNNER AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PAUL TONKINSON CONQUER THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST FOOT RACE?
Ageing as a runner is no joke. Paul Tonkinson discovers that in running, as in life, you are gradually overtaken by a stream of young people wearing clothes you couldn't get in to and in shoes you don't recognise. He observes that your relationship with running changes - you no longer run as fast as you can, you run as fast as your body can handle, which is slow. So, embrace it.
Why not the toughest footrace on earth? The Marathon Des Sables, a week long, 250kms self-sufficient sweat fest across the Sahara Desert. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out. lots. While training for the event - calves explode, tendons pop, knees disintegrate. Years come and go, time seems to be running out as the race seems an impossible dream and then, in 2024 when fitness is finally achieved, a freak accident - Paul is run over by dogs, hospitalised, all hope is lost.
Spring 2025, the planets align. Tonkinson snags entry to MDS, two months till race time. It's on - the last hurrah. Get the gear down from the attic, apply the toe jelly and find that mandatory whistle.
With such little time to train, he can't compete any more that's for sure - the question is more basic - can he possibly finish?
Table of Contents:
Prologue - The Camel
Part 1
1 Spring
2 Doubts
3 Body Audit
4 The Ageing Runner
5 Race to the Stones
6 One Man and His Dog
7 Seasons
8 York
9 Comfortably Numb
10 Letting Go
11 The Shock of the New
12 Going Deep
13 An Old Friend
14 The Hand of Dog
15 Man Down
16 Alan
17 The Reframe
18 Normal
19 Worst ldea
20 Decision
21 Gavon
22 Acceleration
Part 2
23 The First Morning - Day 1
24 Lift Off
25 Humbled - Day 2
26 Acceptance - Day 3
27 Into the Unknown - Day 4
28 Cracked
29 Rest - Day 5
30 Blind Leading The Blind - Day 6
31 Finished - Day 7
32 Earth
33 What Have I Become?
Acknowledgements
