Building skills a two, in the second half of the radio program, the host is interviewing a participant who has run the marathon disables. Listen to the interview and complete the notes. Below with me . in the studio is jay huntsmen, who ran the marathon disables last year. To begin with, what kind of people take part in a race? The runners are mostly men. More than one thousand people take part in the race every year, and about thirty percent of them are women. The oldest competitor to date was eighty three years old, and the Youngest was sixteen. Competing in the race on multiple occasions is common, and some runners have participated more than twenty times. What is the race like? It's definitely the toughest race i've run. The weather is a big chAllenge. First, the desert heat is almost temperatures during the race average between thirty five to forty degrees sales us, but can reach fifty degrees soucians. Then you have to cope with extreme temperature changes. IT can drop to ten degree sale as during. oh, wow. The temperature is not the only weather related chAllenge in the sahara. Strong winds and sandstorms can occur at any time. You must be dangerous. yes. In ninety ninety four, an italian runner named moral prosperrity got lost in a sandstorm and walked around in the desert for ten days. He had gone more than three hundred kilometers, of course, before he found a remote desert village he took in two years for his health to recover. But guess what? prosperity? I came back in ninety, eighty eight. This time he finished the race because of what happened to prosperity. Runners are now tracked with G, P, S, devices in case they get lost. But IT can be dangerous, even if you don't get lost. The heat and loss of water can cause serious medical conditions. But there must be health care professionals there, right? yes. More than five hundred staff members are at the race, including sixty doctors, nurses and emergency medical workers, two helicopters and eight planes are also ready to fly anyone who become seriously alta hospital.