Mock test 3 · listening part 2

Part 3. You will hear a talk: A marathon in the desert.

Hello and welcome back to Sports Talk. Today I want to tell you about one of the toughest races in the world, the Marathon of the Sands. It takes place every spring in the Sahara Desert in the south of Morocco. Many people think it's in Egypt, but it isn't.

Let me give you the numbers. The runners cover about two hundred fifty kilometers. That's almost six normal marathons. And they don't do it in one go, of course. The race lasts six days, with one very long stage of more than eighty kilometers in the middle.

What makes it really hard is that the runners have to carry everything they need for the week in a backpack: their sleeping bag, their clothes and, most importantly, all their food. The only thing the organizers give them is water, a few liters every day, and a place in a tent to sleep.

Last week I spoke to Lisa Brown from Ohio, who finished the race this year. Before the race she worked as a nurse in a children's hospital, and now she's a full-time runner. She told me she wasn't the fastest, but she wasn't the slowest either.

Lisa didn't run alone. Her husband wanted to come, but he hurt his knee, so she ran with her younger brother. She says they had a lot of arguments, but they crossed the finish line together.

If you'd like to read more about Lisa's adventure, she writes a blog. It's called Sandy Feet, and the address is www dot sandyfeet dot com. That's S, A, N, D, Y, F, E, E, T. After the break, we'll talk about this weekend's football games.

Hello and welcome back to Sports Talk. Today I want to tell you about one of the toughest races in the world, the Marathon of the Sands. It takes place every spring in the Sahara Desert in the south of Morocco. Many people think it's in Egypt, but it isn't.

Let me give you the numbers. The runners cover about two hundred fifty kilometers. That's almost six normal marathons. And they don't do it in one go, of course. The race lasts six days, with one very long stage of more than eighty kilometers in the middle.

What makes it really hard is that the runners have to carry everything they need for the week in a backpack: their sleeping bag, their clothes and, most importantly, all their food. The only thing the organizers give them is water, a few liters every day, and a place in a tent to sleep.

Last week I spoke to Lisa Brown from Ohio, who finished the race this year. Before the race she worked as a nurse in a children's hospital, and now she's a full-time runner. She told me she wasn't the fastest, but she wasn't the slowest either.

Lisa didn't run alone. Her husband wanted to come, but he hurt his knee, so she ran with her younger brother. She says they had a lot of arguments, but they crossed the finish line together.

If you'd like to read more about Lisa's adventure, she writes a blog. It's called Sandy Feet, and the address is www dot sandyfeet dot com. That's S, A, N, D, Y, F, E, E, T. After the break, we'll talk about this weekend's football games.