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Marathon-lovers, here’s one for you: November 30, 2011 will be the running of the seventh annual Antarctica Ice Marathon. Temperature will be balmy -4 F (-20 C) for your 26 mile run. And here’s a cheery note from the organizer’s Web site: “Forget about penguins or crowds cheering you along the route — no penguins [...]
It’s interesting what will drive a man to drink his own urine.
In Mauro Prosperi’s case, it was a sandstorm. The poor guy got lost in one while he was running Morocco’s Marathon Des Sables. To call this race a marathon is a joke, given that the course is a whopping 151 miles across the scorching 120-degrees-Fahrenheit Sahara Desert.
Intuitively, it makes sense that a trained athlete can run a marathon easily, while a “couch potato” can barely run a mile. But what’s the biology behind it? Find out how fit and unfit bodies respond to exercise in this episode.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about Santa. And while I believe his abilities to supply countless children with toys, pilot a sleigh-craft and squeeze his potbelly down a chimney are pretty incredible, I think I’m more amazed by the people who trek to Santa’s home turf each April to run the North Pole Marathon.
What’s the North Pole Marathon? It’s where people run 26.2 miles on the Arctic ice floes that coat the Arctic Ocean — in subzero temperatures. And for some people, it takes a really long time to run a marathon at the North Pole, given the conditions — come on, obviously it’s difficult to run on snow and ice. For example, last year it took a former opera singer from the UK nine-and-a-half hours to complete the marathon.
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