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Running [Badwater Ultramarathon] [Marathon des Sables]
Multisport [XTERRA]
Series [Hi-Tec] [Four Winds] [Sport Trac Challenge]
Expedition Races [Elf] [Raid][Eco-Challenge]
Expedition Races [Southern Traverse][Beast of the East]
Stage Races [La Ruta] [Iditasport]
Kayaking [Nepal]
Surfing [Antarctica]
Interviews [Ned Overend]

• Record-Breaking Pace
  Despite battling against forest fires and crews laying asphalt, runners in the men's and women's divisions shatter the course records.
  
• Breast Cancer Survivor Takes Second
  After enduring a four-hour postponement due to flash floods, over 43 runners from around the world began the relentless, unforgiving trek across the desert floor.
  
• Ulrich does Death Valley to Whitney Trek on Own
  Running 146 miles from the depths of Death Valley to the top of Mount Whitney wasn't enough for Marshall Ulrich.
  

    MARATHON DES SABLES

• 2000 Marathon des Sables
  Over 700 individuals compete in this year's event enduring intense heat, bitter cold nights, sand storms, head winds, tail winds, and frighteningly still stretches.
  Also experience the Broadband version with 50 video stories form the runners' perspective.
  

• 1999 Marathon des Sables
  The Marathon des Sables or "Marathon of the Sands" is a 140 mile footrace run in six stages over the course of seven days.
  

• 1999 Xterra World Championships
  Mountain bikers aren't supposed to be able to run, swim and bike. That theory lost some of its air last year when mountain biking legend Ned Overend shocked some of the world's best triathletes.
  

    SERIES
    Four Winds

• 2000
  Becoming lost made no difference in our team's standing, there was such a backup on the ropes section that only one team made it down to officially finish the race.
  

• 2000
  Three months, four competitions, thirteen teams, and dozens of outstanding individual performances marked the first Ford Explorer Sport Trac Challenge.
  

• 1999
  The National Championships of the Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series brought nearly 1,000 athletes to the shores of Castaic Lake .
  

    EXPEDITION RACES
    Raid Gauloises

• 2000
  The 10th annual Raid took its toll on many teams.
  
• 1998
  From the Pacific Ocean to the Andes, the ninth Raid Gauloises in Ecuador took competitors on a physical and mental journey .
  

• 2000
  The second-annual Elf in Brazil turns into the longest adventure race ever.
  

• 1999
  Teams finished the famed race in record times and left behind heartbreaking stories.
  
• 1998
  Teams from all over the world will ocean kayak, trek, mountain bike, climb, ride horses and camels nonstop for 300 miles.
  
• 1997
  Watch as athletes from 16 countries will go full-tilt through the backcountry of Australia in this nonstop, non-motorized, unassisted test of sheer grit and brawn.
  
• 1996
  In a frantic start, 74 teams took off with 140 competitors on horseback and the rest running on foot. Some were clearly there to win...
  

• 1999
  For a maximum five days, racers will be forced to navigate icy waters, muddy trails, and rugged hills over a course kept shrouded in mystery until the eve of the event.
  

• 1999
  During the six-day Beast of the East adventure race, competitors will test their strength and endurance in the rugged wilderness of the Allegheny Mountains and New River Valley in southwest Virginia.
  

    STAGE RACES
    Iditasport

• 2000
  Competitor Pat Norwil reports the back-to-back mountain bike races evoked "overwhelming frustrations."
  

• 1999
  Called the toughest mountain bike race in the world.
  

    KAYAKING
    Nepal

• A self-sufficient team treks into Nepal to descend the Langu Khola in whitewater kayaks.
  

    SURFING
    Antarctica

• Eight American surfers dare to challenge the hulking pyramids of Antarctica's polar water, setting out on the first-ever surfing expedition to the bottom of the globe.
  

    INTERVIEWS
    Ned Overend

• Ned Overend '99 XTERRA win proved his athleticism is not limited to one sport. In a candid interview, Overend discusses mountain biking and multi-sport racing.