AdriReef Festival meets Marco Olmo introducing his books "The Runner" and "Running through the great void", on Saturday 14 September at 6:00pm at Bagno Losco in Marina Romea, Ravenna.

Marco Olmo is a living legend of extreme running. He started late, when the others started to stop. In his “previous lives”, as he says, he has been a farmer, a truck driver and a worker in his village’s cement plant. He is now 66 years old and keeps on running international races. He came to fame on the ultra running scene when he won the most prestigious race of them all, the Ultra-Trail Du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in 2006 and then again in 2007. What was extraordinary was not only that he won the race, but that he did so for the first time when he was 58 (167 km over twenty hours of uninterrupted running). From the age of 40 Olmo has completed other famous extreme running races in the desert of Africa, such as Marathon des Sable (230 km in food self-sufficiency through the deserts of Morocco), Libyan Desert Marathon and the Ten Commandments Marathon (156 km on Mount Sinai). He also participated in Tchimbe-Raid (Martinica) and in Badwater Ultramarathon, in the desert of California: a 135mile non-stop race between the Valley of Death and Mount Whitney, at temperatures above 126°F (52°C).