http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/3/3_1/three-men-run-4000-miles-.shtml

Three men run 4,000 miles of Sahara in 111 days
Runners first modern athletes to cross Sahara

By The Associated Press
Posted Tuesday, 20 February, 2007

IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.
“This is 100 percent, without a doubt the hardest thing any of us have done,” said American runner Charlie Engle, 44, while eating tuna and plain pasta during a lunch break about 112 miles northwest of Cairo on Saturday, day 108.

Engle, 38-year-old Ray Zahab of Canada and Kevin Lin, 30, of Taiwan, finished their ultra-marathon Tuesday afternoon at the mouth of the Suez Canal in Egypt after running through the night.

In less than four months, they have run across the world’s largest desert, through six countries — Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and finally Egypt.

A film crew followed them, chronicling the desert journey for actor Matt Damon’s production company, LivePlanet. Damon plans to narrate the “Running the Sahara” documentary.