COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
1989
Big Sur Marathon
1991
Napa Valley Marathon, Boston Marathon, and Big Sur Marathon
1992—1995
Ran dozens of marathons, triathlons and 10K races
1996
Men’s Winner, Nanango Forest 52K, Australia; Boston Marathon
1998
Raid Gauloises, Ecuador
1999
Winner (Men’s Division), Southern Traverse Adventure Race, New Zealand
2000
Hawaii Ironman; Eco-Challenge, Borneo; Raid Gauloises, Tibet/Nepal
2001
Eco-Challenge, New Zealand; Expedition BVI Adventure race, British Virgin Islands; Discovery Channel World Championships Adventure Race, Switzerland;
2002
Eco-Challenge, Fiji; Raid Gauloises, Vietnam
2003
Winner, 250K Gobi March, China; 5th US National 24 Hour Championships; 8th, Badwater 135-Mile Ultramarathon
2004
Winner, RAAM (Race Across America) Co-ed team division; Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim run; 2nd, 250K Atacama Crossing, Chile
2005
Winner, 220K Jungle Marathon, Brazil; 3rd, Badwater Ultramarathon; 3rd, Coastal Challenge 250K, Costa Rica; 3rd, Mauritania Challenge 250K
2006
Winner, 250K Gobi March, China, team division; 3rd, Badwater Ultramarathon
2006—2007
Record run across the Sahara
2007
5th, Badwater Ultramarathon; 13th, Furnace Creek 508 cycling race; 2nd overall, Death Valley Cup
2008
Running America—record attempt for crossing the United States
2009
4th, Badwater Ultramarathon; 4th, Furnace Creek 508; 1st, new record, Death Valley Cup
2013
Brazil 135 Ultramarathon; 5th, fifty-plus-age-group record, Badwater Ultramarathon
2014
January 11—Married Astacianna Hatcher in a redwood forest, Big Sur, CA—1st place
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© Rod McClean
Charlie Engle is a world-renowned ultramarathon runner, having won or placed in some of the planet’s most punishing long-distance footraces. In 2007, Matt Damon produced and narrated Running the Sahara, a film about Engle and his successful bid to become the first person to run 4,500 miles across the Sahara Desert. Engle has been featured in Men’s Journal, Outside, National Geographic Weekend, Oxford American, Runner’s World, The Huffington Post, PBS’s Need to Know, NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in North Carolina.
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