I just got this:
"GREAT NEWS FOR NORTH POLE MARATHONERS - the tractor worked. from the web March29,200 Barneo starts!Ice runway of Barneo airdrome is ready + accepts several technical flights today. First landed on floe at 1 p.m. MST.Construction of camp started immediately + after several hours there was a roomy mess tent built where the team can take a snack and warm themselves during their work.Temperature is -39°C "
Sounds great until the last little sentance.... -39 degrees celsius???? WTH? How can you start a paragraph with "Great News" and end with "Temperature is -39 degrees Celsius"
(for those who don't have their conversion tables handy, -39c is almost the same as -39f. Though something tells me at least 3 of the TrailNerds knew that without me telling them)
So, that's what I have to look forward to. I leave Friday - back the following Friday. In between I will travel from KC to Newark to Oslo, Norway, to Longyearbyen, Norway (an island off the Northern coast) then off to the North Pole itself. Spend one to two days at the pole, run the marathon and return... lather, rinse, repeat.... sounds like fun doesn't it?
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