12:00 pm
Hit the trails with Charlie for a run to Phoenix Lake
(meet at the MindTank garden)
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Charlie will join us for MindTank Beer Garden! Crack a cold one and listen to Charlie’s story of how he overcame extreme personal challenges by giving himself extreme running challenges, ultimately becoming one of the most famed runners in the world.
Charlie Engle is a world-renowned ultra-marathon 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 lead the first team to run 4500 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.