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My feet slip with every step. Moving with the soft sand beneath.<br />
Struggling to gain traction and push forward. And yet I must. Force each<br />
step; push with the poles to achieve forward motion. This is the desert,<br />
and as much as it forces me back, I must resist.<br />
My first foray into desert foot events was in this same spot. The<br />
Australian Simpson Desert in 2017. A late comer to this sport at age 41,<br />
I had only recently discovered the joy of trail events, having completed<br />
a 100km single stage event in my hometown. I was looking for the next<br />
challenge and a one-week desert ultramarathon seemed perfect. It was<br />
as far away from my ‘normal’ life, working in an office, as you could get.<br />
Here, in a place 2000km from the nearest city, requiring two days travel<br />
just to get here, was a desert gateway town with only 100 residents,<br />
leading into one of the harshest deserts in the world.<br />
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