At the tail end of the most bone-chilling winter in recent years, I left New York for Antarctica, the coldest and driest place on earth, where the sun never completely sets. Read More
The Seven Continents Club provides the appealing opportunity to race in places we’re already inclined to visit, as well as in some intriguing, out-of-the way settings we might not otherwise consider,’’ he said. 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
“It was just so quiet … all you could hear were the ripples of the water, the barking of the seals, the cracking of the ice. You’re just in nature at its purest form,” Croft said. Read More
“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
After 100 marathons on all seven continents, Steve Neibergall is finally taking the time to slow down. Read More
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
But no matter where we were on the course, the volunteers and assembled spectators were invariably rowdy and incredibly supportive. Chicagoans, for the most part, genuinely seem to embrace the marathon and its runners, and I’m told that Marathon Sunday in October is practically a city-wide holiday. Upon seeing my medal, several people on the street afterward were quick to smile and tell me “great job, congratulations!” Read More
There is no Antarctica Marathon, of course — not in the sense that there is a Boston Marathon or a New York Marathon or a London Marathon. It and other exotic races are the creation of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel, whose founder, Thom Gilligan, realized serendipitously 19 years ago how far Type A distance runners would go in pursuit of their goals. Read More
