Sahara Scramble: ; Matt Nelson, 42, a Native of South Charleston, Is Training for a Run Through One of the Hottest and Driest Places On Earth.

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By MONICA OROSZ DAILY MAIL STAFF

Matt Nelson has always been the kind of guy who likes a challenge, whether it is majoring in chemistry to prove he can do it, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, or now, entering endurance events that call for racing 150 miles across a desert. The 42-year- old South Charleston native calls himself a regular family man.

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Sahara Scramble: ; Matt Nelson, 42, a Native of South Charleston, Is Training for a Run Through One of the Hottest and Driest Places On Earth.

You be the judge.

"The root cause of my mental disorder," he says, laughing, "is a lot of drive, personal and internal."

Nelson, who now lives in Orlando, Fla., with his wife and their four children, is training for a late October race that will take him 150 miles across the Sahara Desert in Egypt. It is part of an...

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