Congratulations to all the finishers of the 2017 Antarctica Marathon! Read More
Congratulations to the finishers of the 2017 Antarctica Half-Marathon! Read More
Dave Ventresca will be running his first marathon in honor of his wife My Luu. The 2017 Antarctica Marathon would have been My's seventh continent, which they registered for back in 2014. After losing his wife to a rare blood cancer in September 2015, he pressed forward to finish her quest along with her brother Sang Luu. Ventresca established the My Luu Memorial Fun and has successfully raised more than $26,000 in his efforts. Read More
Only Antarctica stands between her and completing seven marathons on seven continents, which she hopes to accomplish on March 10 or 11 on King George Island just north of the Antarctica Peninsula. Organized by Marathon Tours & Travel, the marathon provides a unique challenge for adventure athletes, all while protecting the island’s pristine environment. Plenty of people worldwide are eager to run the marathon that’s sold out through 2020. Read More
"My whole part of the mission is to inspire kiwi kids to get off the couch, stop using their iPads and PlayStations and get them out doing more fitness, and for them to get more active." Read More
Junior distance runner Quinn Gardiner-Hall is just weeks away from following in the footsteps of his heroes to the icy southern land. But at just 11 years old, the boy from Waiuku, south of Auckland, will be much younger when he goes to Antarctica than the adventurers Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Peter Blake. Read More
Once they have ticked Antarctica off, the group will continue their quest to run a marathon on each of the seven continents and join their good mate Steele in the Seven Continents Club - one of world athletics' most challenging achievements. Read More
Mother Nature played an exceptionally fickle role at the 17th Antarctica Marathon and Half-Marathon held March 12 and 13, according to Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer. Read More
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
