Team Geared Up

Hmmm. I was wondering where to run a marathon next January. I guess this would make quite a change from the Disney World Marathon!

http://www.connemarathon.com/ is a very good one apparently.

also see: http://www.marathontour.com/

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This race is pretty cool but just one question…if only one person runs a “race” like this 100k, can it still be called a “race”? Doesn’t that just make it a time trial?

The feature event was the 26.2 mile Ice Marathon, the 100K was an additional event and originaly had 4 or 5 competitors but time constraints didn’t allow any recovery time between the 2 races and this in turn meant that the other competitors except for Richard Donovan couldn’t compete. I was one of the competitors and withdrew from the race an hour before the start, so it was a race.

Concerning the comment about a “race”: In this first Antarctic 100k in January 2006, more than one person actually started the event. However, Richard Donovan was the only person to complete it and he did so running alone. The only reference to the word “race” was in referring to the race distance. There was no mention anyway, whatsoever, of Richard ‘winning’ (which he did in the second edition of the event when others also finished).

Thanks for that Mike. Are you involved yourself? (In my opinion a race is still a race if it’s advertised as a race and open to others and even if only one person shows up and completes it, I’d still consider them the “winner”). I suppose it’s just words?