Ferg Hawke

Who is Ferg Hawke?

Fergus Hawke is a leading international ultra-distance runner, residing in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

He has placed second in the Badwater Ultramarathon twice, to Dean Karnazes and Scott Jurek. His 2005 time is the ninth best time ever in the history of the race. The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135-mile ultramarathon through Death Valley in mid-July, starting at Badwater Basin, the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, 282 feet below sea level, and finishing 8300 feet up Mount Whitney. With a cumulative vertical ascent of 13,000 ft and a cumulative descent of 4,700 ft, and temperatures reaching 130 degrees Fahrenheit, it is considered by some people to be the most difficult footrace in the world.

He holds the second-best time by a North American in the Marathon des Sables, a staged 150-mile ultramarathon race through the Sahara Desert, in Morocco: 2002, with a time of 22:51:03.