While we were in Eskimoville (Is it PI to call it that?), we visited Ellyn and Kyle Brown. (We met them in Kona.) The couple - whose only child is a Marine - live in a comfy hilltop house in Anchorage with glorious vistas. Over a yummy crab dinner, we learned that Ellyn, a snowshoe racing champ and a school teacher, competed in the 2005 Antarctica Marathon! She traveled 12,000 miles, by boat, to run those 26.2 miles.
Interestingly, the marathon is sponsored by Capella University, a growing online school. Capella notes that the marathon course "loops through scientific research bases of Uruguay, Chile, China, and Russia."
I guess this is the race to compete in if runners want curious scientists or chinstrap penguins to gawk at them.
Here's Ellyn crossing the finish line in Antarctica.
While we were in Eskimoville (Is it PI to call it that?), we visited Ellyn and Kyle Brown. (We met them in Kona.) The couple - whose only child is a Marine - live in a comfy hilltop house in Anchorage with glorious vistas. Over a yummy crab dinner, we learned that Ellyn, a snowshoe 