When Jean-Claude asked me if I wanted to be part of the second edition of the Silk Route Race in Rajasthan, I seized the opportunity. The SDPO staff includes emergency doctors, an official race photographer and physiotherapists, but everyone multi-tasks and helps out marking the route prior to each stage, setting up water tables, taking photos. I was given carte blanche to runsome stages to get a feel for the event, take pictures, mark the course and write daily race summaries.