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“The motivation is really my fascination with the South Pole,” Wagner said in an interview with Runner’s World Newswire. “I can’t imagine what the seventh continent looks like so I have to go there to experience it.”Read More
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“This record is not for me but for the one in six men and families affected by prostate cancer,” Vinecki said in a statement released by Marathon Tours & Travel, which founded the Seven Continents Club after putting on the first marathon in Antarctica in 1995.Read More
“There’s no better way to break through the touristic veneer of a destination than to participate, elbow to elbow, with local people,” Read More
After 100 marathons on all seven continents, Steve Neibergall is finally taking the time to slow down.Read More
“I have only found one other woman from England to run all seven continents.”Read More
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But Vinecki, a tri-athlete and youth aerial skier, may have already put her toughest test behind her when she traveled to Antarctica, the world's driest, windiest, and iciest continent as part of a world marathon tour she developed to spread awareness and raise money for prostate cancer.Read More
The Antarctica Marathon and Half Marathon benefits Oceanites, a non-profit research group that measures the flora, fauna and wildlife and the impact of tourism on Antarctica. "Over the past three years, the event has raised nearly $150,000," Read More
When 14-year-old Winter Vinecki, an ace student at Stanford University’s online high school and two-time Ironkids national champion, crossed the finish line of the Antarctica Marathon on March 30, she became the youngest person to run 26.2 miles on the formidable continent.Read More
