“i2P - Gobi Desert 2013”
Today, Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin started their latest adventure - running 2300km days across Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, one of the most remote deserts on the planet. To put this into perspective, they will run close to 70km, each and every day for 35 days! Today was their warm-up day, and they ran 61km through mosquito infested fields, testing out their equipment and shoes. These guys are absolutely amazing.
What fascinates me about Ray Zahab and the impossible2Possible team is they have total clarity of vision. They are totally and completely connected with the “WHY”. Why they get up each day and train; why they do all these crazy endurance expeditions; why they challenge some of the most hostile environments on the planet over and over. You only have to go as far as the front page of their website to understand their “WHY”. It is three simple words:
EDUCATE
INSPIRE
EMPOWER
And inspire they do.
For the next 35 days, I will be following Ray’s journey and creating a painting a day inspired by Ray’s expeditions. The way I look at it, if Ray and Kevin can run 70km per day for 35 days, I can produce a painting a day for each day they are running theGobi Desert.
Good luck Ray! I look forward to hearing the stories when you get back to Ottawa!
5 Comments
John Wright
Are you there with them Greg?
Greg
Thanks Chris and Nathalie!
I appreciate the warm and positive encouragement!
Nathalie Samson
Wonderful and one for the Dean – Samson household as well!
Chris Roman
Wonderful that you are doing this, one of these will hang in the Roman house for sure :)
Greg
June 25, 2013
Hi John! Unfortunately no, I am not with them in Mongolia. I do hope to join them on one of their expeditions in the future. I have however, committed to running Ray’s 38km trail run organized for August up in Chelsea. I have to prove to myself that this old fart still has a few miles left in him!
How was the Camino de Santiago? Let’s head out and do some sketching and you can tell me all about it!