Marathon running trio cross Sahara

They started with a dip in the cold surf of the
Atlantic on a white sand beach in Africa's far west. A little over
three months later, this week they were swimming above coral reefs in
the Red Sea.

In between lay 4,580 miles of
heat-blasted and empty Sahara, which, unlike anyone before them, Ray
Zahab, 38, Kevin Lin, 30, and Charlie Engle, 44, ran across.

On average, the Canadian, Taiwanese and American ran two marathons a
day for 110 days, in temperatures of up to 104F, ripping through a pair
of trainers in 48 hours.

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