Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Biography & Memoir, Local Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781770229068
Published: March 2016
Imprint: Zebra Press
Page Extent: 256
Format: e-Book
RRP 290.00

Trail Blazer

Ryan Sandes

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What does it take to run a six-day race through the world’s harshest deserts? Or 100 miles in a single day at altitudes that would leave you breathless just walking? More than that, though: what is it like to win these races? South Africa’s ultra-trail-running superstar Ryan Sandes has done just that. Since bursting onto the international trail-running scene by winning the first multistage race he ever entered – the brutal Gobi March – Ryan has gone on to win various other multistage and single-day races around the globe. Written with bestselling author and journalist Steve Smith, Trail Blazer – My Life as an Ultra-distance Trail Runner recounts the life story of this intrepid sportsman, from his experiences as a rudderless party animal to becoming a world-class...

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Ryan Sandes

Ryan Sandes

Forty-two-year-old Ryan Sandes is a local and international trail-running sensation. Among his many accomplishments; he was the first person to win all four races in the 4 Desert Series; and in 2013 became the first person to ever win an ultra-trail race on all seven continents. In 2011; and on debut; Ryan won the Leadville 100-miler mountain race in Leadville; Colorado; setting the third-fastest time in the history of the race and the fastest time by a non-American. He is an ambassador for the prestigious Laureus Foundation; married to businesswoman Vanessa and is the father of Max.

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