The North Pole Marathon is referenced in the Guinness Records like the the most northern marathon in the world .
In 2011, he had gathered 26 participants over-covered from head to toe, who had the courage to embark on this extraordinary adventure, as well as money, since if you want to participate, registration will cost you about € 12,000.
Everyone in all countries in the world are invited. Although a minimum of training is necessary, no need to have already run a marathon before, or to have had to overcome extreme climatic conditions .
a little story:
The first edition of this extreme race took place in 2002, when a runner named Richard Donovan decided to embark on this operation ... alone! This Irishman is not cold in the eyes since it was not his only feat: in 2009, in 2009, he had run 7 marathons on 7 continents, all in 6 days for humanitarian purposes.
In 2003, the noise of a marathon at the North Pole had made its way, which had gathered 10 people.
Since then, the event has been reproducing each year with an increasing number of participants, and Richard Donovan as director of the race. The North Pole 2012 marathon will therefore be the 11ᵉ edition. For the moment, 215 people have embarked on this feat since its creation, coming from 34 different countries.
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A little over 42 km are to be traveled, at extreme temperatures which depend a lot on climatic conditions on D -Day. They can vary, but turn more or less around -25ºC, -30ºC. In the history of Race, the coldest temperature was noted in 2009 with -37ºC!
The most surprising thing is that this race takes place on frozen water. There is no land, but a simple path marked on a large ice cube, on which a camp is established which slides over the ocean currents.
During the whole race, this piece of ice will move in a translational movement, impossible to notice for the runners of the extreme , who are absolutely out of danger throughout the duration of Adventure.
Doctors are of course present on site, as well as heated tents arranged at regular distances on the course and armed operators who watch over polar bears. These precautions are more preventive than anything else, since to date, no major incident has occurred during the race, no more than polar bears.
We nevertheless remain impressed, no less by the merit of these extreme runners than by the poetry of the concept and the beauty of these Nordic landscapes .
A beautiful story that will leave these participants the imperishable memory of an extreme adventure, the kind of thing that we will like to tell the little children!
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