Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team geared Up) Now here’s the kinda adventurous spirit we love round here: imagine your first marathon. Imagine the kinda scary trepidation that went along with it. The savage training and the constant doubts. Then imagine that you will be competing in the world’s coolest marathon in a race at the top of the world - the Geographic North Pole.

Wayne Pollock is doing just that. His biog on the site goes like this:

A former Ireland U-21 rugby international but first time marathon runner. Wayne will follow up on his debut at the North Pole Marathon by attempting the Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k later in the year. Aged 42, Wayne works in the travel business and lives in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Together with his running colleague, Peter Ferris, Wayne hopes to raise €150k for cancer charities in the process. He has also set a longer term goal of running 100 marathons on all of the continents.

Peter Ferris has run almost 300 marathons according to the site. If they complete it they’ll join a list of superheroes who’ve done it before including Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Everest summiteer and previous winner Sean Burch and Irish novelist Michael Collins. The fun starts next week, 26th March and there are strong Irish connections with race director Richard Donovan and last year’s winner Thomas Maguire.

-Aisling-