A Special Visit
June 27th, 2007 at 5:30 pm | posted by Alan Boswell, ONE Online OrganizerToday in the office we were lucky to have a very special guest pay us a visit. Charlie Engle was one of the three super-athletes who successfully completed the astonishing feat of running across the Sahara this past year. If you are not impressed yet, just imagine this: Running for 111 consecutive days, only one of which covered less than 25 miles and with 75 days which covered more than 50 miles; shedding 30 pounds in the first 30 days, despite the fact of eating over 10,000 calories a day, 2000 of which came from Gatorade alone. And if you wish you could have met him at the end of the journey in Egypt, consider this: out of those 111 days, only 2 days included a shower.
Charlie has been an incredible advocate for ONE, and with the coming sure-to-be-spectacular Running the Sahara documentary—which chronicles this unprecedented expedition of pure endurance and will power. We are honored to work with and support Charlie, whom ONE’s President and CEO Susan McCue called a “hero in the sports world, and also a hero in the global poverty world.”
As Charlie tells it, when he first started the expedition, he was “a runner, decent human being, fairly active in my community,” but was not yet an activist. All that changed when during his pre-run scouting he visited the Niger city of Agadez, which Charlie describes as “500,000 people living in a city meant for 50,000 people.” He realized that there was one obvious reason for the over-population: lack of water. They had no choice. “If there was water there, we wouldn’t have 500,000 people living there.”
Since then, raising awareness about the basic need for clean water in Africa has become a central theme in Charlie’s life. He tells stories from the run of saving one person’s life with the aid of nothing more than clean water and basic antibiotics. After the documentary, Charlie is not thinking of retiring. He already has plans for his next big adventure, and you can bet ONE will be right along with him.
Stay tuned for some video clips from Charlie’s visit with the office.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
The Sahara run has been a dream of mine as long as i have known of it - but the only time I run is when i am chasing something (If something is chasing me i turn around.) Charlie endured incredible hardship and still was able to see that it was nothing compared to what the bottom billion must deal with. With that kind of motivation and vision, the sands and rocks of the Sahara must seem to be a surmountable obstacle. Congratulations on completing this ultimate challange of human endurance Charlie!!! If you can answer me two questions… Did you meet the Lahcen and Mohamad Ahansal ? And did you beat the horses?
Thank You for your Devotion to ONE,
ONE’s Marine
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