{"id":231,"date":"2016-01-19T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2016-01-19T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:56:41","slug":"antarctica-the-countdown-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica: The Countdown Is On"},"content":{"rendered":"

It dawns on me today that in eight weeks I’ll be on my way back from Antarctica.\u00a0 That means that in just about six weeks I’ll be heading to Antarctica.<\/p>\n

Marathon Tours<\/a>, who are handling the majority of the logistics on this crazy adventure, are sending me weekly emails now with last minute details and suggestions.\u00a0 I’m a little intimidated as I open these messages.\u00a0 More than anything, I’m concerned I may be TOO nonchalant about this marathon at the end of the earth.\u00a0 I’ve bought gloves and wool socks, sourced various additional layers to have on throughout the event.\u00a0 But there are weird requirements that are odd mainly because they involve a thought process I haven’t had to even consider for other events.\u00a0 This includes a warning that there are to be no wrappers as they could blow away and damage the ecosystem… which makes sense when you think about it.\u00a0 Dire warnings about frozen CamelBak (TM) hydration systems led to advice to bring three screwtop water bottles… which begs the question, couldn’t the screwcaps be just as damaging to the ecosystem if they get blown out of our hands?<\/p>\n

There are many more posts to come on the Antarctica Marathon, both leading up to and after the event.\u00a0 But in the meantime, I’ll close this post with the supposed logo of the event.\u00a0 I… kinda don’t like it.\u00a0 It feels oddly cheap and clip-art-y.\u00a0 And I take issue with its billing as “The Last Marathon” mainly because though it will be my 7th continent marathon, it is far from the last marathon I will ever run.\u00a0 I appreciate for some it will mark the culmination of their running goals; and I appreciate that it’s situated at one end of the earth’s poles.\u00a0 But isn’t every marathon the last marathon… until the next one that is?<\/p>\n

Circular arguments I know.\u00a0 But the earth as they say is round, and round and round we will go.\u00a0 Where we stop, nobody knows… albeit I do know I’ll stop ever so briefly in Antarctica to run 26.2 miles.\u00a0 And I know that’s in just over a month and a half’s time.<\/p>\n

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It dawns on me today that in eight weeks I’ll be on my way back from Antarctica.\u00a0 That means that in just about six weeks I’ll be heading to Antarctica. Marathon Tours, who are handling the majority of the logistics on this crazy adventure, are sending me weekly emails now with last minute details and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,71,4,75,72,74],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure","tag-antarctica","tag-marathon","tag-timeline","tag-tours","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}