Ep. 1046: Running Across the Sahara Desert - Revisited - Ray Zahab
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Soon after turning 30, Ray, a self-described “two pack a day smoker”, was tired of the direction his life was heading. His younger brother, who was pursuing a healthier lifestyle, was his inspiration to make a change.
Ray quickly set his eyes to try to complete a 100-mile ultramarathon. He won.
Within the next few years he put his life on a trajectory of adventures and purpose, combining feats as large as running across the Sahara Desert and taking scores of young adults on adventures through founding impossible2possible.com, an organization that aims to inspire and educate youth through adventure learning, inclusion, and participation in expeditions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:10.2 | Today we are talking to Ray Zahab. |
| 0:13.4 | We're throwing this one back to 2020. |
| 0:16.1 | And Ray is a hugely inspiring person to me for a number of reasons. But one, he got started an adventure |
| 0:24.1 | really late. He was 30. Yeah, I'm older than 30 now, but he was 30 when he needed to describe |
| 0:29.3 | himself as a two pack a day smoker. I just didn't like the way he was going. And his brother, |
| 0:35.4 | his younger brother, was pursuing a healthier lifestyle. And he was inspired to make a change. And he wanted going, and his brother, his younger brother, was pursuing a healthier lifestyle, |
| 0:37.9 | and he was inspired to make a change, and he wanted to almost immediately do a hundred-mile |
| 0:43.3 | ultramarathon, and then he won, and Ray has done so much, and today we're going to be talking |
| 0:48.0 | about running across the Sahara Desert, one of the many, many things he is known to have |
| 0:53.7 | completed, and also since we had this conversation, Ray had gotten cancer. one of the many, many things he is known to have completed. |
| 0:55.0 | And also, since we had this conversation, Ray had gotten cancer and has beat it and is chemo-free as of last year. |
| 1:02.4 | And it was just wild to see that. |
| 1:04.0 | We should honestly have him back on to talk again. |
| 1:06.5 | But I remember first learning about Ray through this documentary he filmed called Running the Sahara, |
| 1:12.1 | and it was produced and filmed by Matt Damon, the famous actor. |
| 1:15.6 | And I remember seeing this. |
| 1:17.0 | It was on Netflix. |
| 1:18.1 | And my friend in college and I were like, what is this? |
| 1:20.7 | We were just getting into like documentaries. |
| 1:22.9 | I hadn't done anything like this yet, anything long, adventurous. |
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