The selection of the the best images of the race is available for download. We uploaded all the images, both on Facebook and Google Plus, and we also prepared a dropbox link, for a faster and easier one-step-download. ...
See day by day race report, pictures and results Stage 1 - Stage 2 - Stage 3 - Stage 4 - Before Stage 5 - Stage 5 - Stage 6 - After race ...
The day started with a swim in the Arabic Sea at sunrise. The water was warm and the air temperature mild. Today there are no stages to run, no dunes to climb no more sand to face. If the first days of the race the...
The sand here, approaching to the sea, is getting whiter than in the rest of the course. If gold and red are the two dominating colors for most of the race, in the last stage the sand gets whiter and lighter. This 10 km section...
The Marathon stage is the longest stage of all the course, with 42,195 km takes the runners to the last camp before the end of the race, the start hour was at 15.00 for the most of the runners, just the first 20 have been...
Today is the “the day”. The Marathon stage of 42,195 km, the longest of the race, that will bring most runners to run till late night. The start hour is set at 15.00 for most runners, just runners from position 1 to 20 will start...
“The previous stages headed south, now we start moving east towards the Arabian Sea, this change of direction will take us to a different landscape: smaller dunes with small spots of green grass and more compact sand” - said Ahmed Al Malki, the Oman...
“This stage will make the difference, not only for the top runners but also for the rest of the group” - explains Ahmed Al Malki, the Oman Desert Marathon Race Director. That’s because this section is one of the hardest stages of the race:...
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