100km of Namib Desert
16 May 2020The legs that move, the pulse that increases, the breathing that is agitated … are sensations that we all have when running anywhere, but in Namibia they feel before starting. Just looking at the landscape makes you want to explore it, to share a few jumps with a group of antelopes, or to try to…
Recce for the new Namib Race
16 May 2020Political movements affect many things, including sports events. RacingThePlanet, the organization of this race was originally created in Egypt in 2005 and named it Sahara Race, it spent a year in Jordan and finally to avoid further problems it landed in Namibia. It was originally designed on the Skeleton Coast, a lost area in the…
The adventure of running trough the desert
15 May 2020Article recently published in TrailRun magazine where you can read it in full in which I talk about what it is to run through the desert with Zitoway, an Italian organization dedicated to this for more than 20 years. Trail running may be new words but discipline is not and in addition to mountain races,…