North Texan suffers through 155-mile race for sake of charity

As Kovics stiffly trekked up and down the sand dunes of the 130-degree Chilean desert in early March, he constantly saw the heat rising from the sand as if it were smoke off a barbeque grill on a Texas Fourth of July.

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