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Canadians Stacey Collie and Rachel Rauwerda are travelling to the world’s southernmost continent to run the Antarctica Marathon. What makes the story even better is that the two are running the entire race in penguin onesies complete with a slide across the finish line.Read More
Running the Boston Marathon was absolutely amazing—it's everything it’s cracked up to be. I ran it in 2010, and then again in 2011 and 2012. But while I had run a few marathons, my sister, Taylor, had another goal: to run on all seven continents. That's when we found the Antarctica Marathon—a race on an island right off the main continent called King George Island.Read More
The race was finished, but the adventure wasn’t over. The Russian crew aboard the Vavilov and the staff of One Oceans Expeditions provided the group with a not-soon-to-be-forgotten experience around the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands.Read More
The Antarctica Marathon lived up to its gnarly reputation as one of the most extreme athletic competitions on Earth during its 16th running, announced Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer. The Antarctica Marathon & Half Marathon presented by Vibram® and New Balance took place March 9 and 10 on King George Island, located near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.Read More
Dr. Dave King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, will arrive in Antarctica next weekend and on March 9 will run in a marathon there, not fully knowing what to expect. In his line of work, figuring things out on the fly is as essential as knife and scalpel.Read More
Through a trip chartered by Marathon Tours & Travel, Mosey and her sister Rose will fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 1. They plan to stay in Buenos Aires for a few days, and then fly to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego — the world’s southernmost city. From there, they will board a ship for Antarctica, passing through the Drake Passage (where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet).Read More
The trip, organized by Boston-based Marathon Tours & Travel, is not only a chance to encounter majestic whales and hundreds of inquisitive penguins up close, it also offers the opportunity to run a marathon in one of the world’s last unspoiled wildernesses.Read More
The Antarctica Marathon, one of the most extreme athletic competitions on Earth, celebrated the finish of the event’s first ever totally blind runner on March 9, announced Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer. Thirteen base personnel representing Chile and China joined the field of 187 participants from 22 countries runners. Read More
