THE BORDER is the only point-A to point-B hundred-mile road race in India. The race starts at an indoor stadium in Jaisalmer City, in the middle of the day. With an overhead sun, the runners are prone to malpractices in maintaining proper hydration and nutrition by the time they leave the outskirts of the city through Chhatrail. At Chhatrail Village, historically, the children of the village have made it a tradition to come cheer for the runners of The Border. After about 12-kilometres of the race, the magnificent windmills of Jaisalmer start showing up, and they go on to accompany the runners for a good deal of the next 25 kilometres of the race. Around the 40th KM stretch, the runners also face some patches of sand on the road. It’s just around the U-turn near Siyambar Lake that the 50K Aid Station welcomes the finishers of 50KM.