While many of you (including me, of course) are preparing to spend a lovely weekend, there are people out there who jsut don’t know what the rest is like. The Marathon des Sables which is considered to be the toughest foot race on Earth ended just a couple of days ago where 900 athletes from around the world had to prove their abilities by walking about 152 miles (245 kilometres) on foot under the burning sun of the southern Moroccan desert. According to the rules of the marathon, the runners have to carry the amount of  food enough for one week, flares and snake antidote by themselves while only water is provided by the organisers. How hard is that?

Marathon des Sables (Marathon of the Sands). (Photo: Pierre Verdy / AFP)