the hot run seems to be pale was actually quite enjoyable i guess i was about to do now is twice the distance in a howling wind and in a freezing cold sorry i should be easy oh. my parents were on holiday naipaul i don't do a great job a further boost in my confidence levels well he's completely in my good for. this purpose so it is there for you so you can collapse on itself it is only a bill it is only a marriage then you can stop any time. or your life. a mother's melodrama aside my parents' concerns do look to have some statistical backing. so my age group psychology got to be happy with that and so you realize there's a sixty five year old man a fifty year old woman and a twelve year old boy that will run fast that i me so i still have it work sitting

. around like this is really all about enjoying yourself oh. but not all right as i'm about to find out. this is chile's atacama desert it's my final stop before the on top six. a tough a place to run would be hard to find it's the driest hot deserts on earth it's also altitude so there's limited don't sit in the. moment think the obvious location for a marathon. the guiding hand behind this expedition on the upcoming antarctic ice marathon is run

a richard donovan in twenty twelve he managed to get through and run a marathon on each of the world's seven continents in less than five days now he's organizing a marathon on a volcano and it's kind of counter-intuitive really at some ways you know bring people up to shoot where they're going to be gasping for oxygen as you know almost fifteen thousand feet controlling you know volcanoes one of them is an active volcano and i just think that makes it attractive to people it's such apparent lapses in human logic that make running fertile ground for philosophy and runa mark rowlands is a guy called bernard suits the canadian philosopher. who asked this question you know if suppose you could live in a utopia where everything that you could get through work you could now acquire through the push of a button what would you do how would you spend your time in tokyo and his answer that i think is right is that we would find ways of making things difficult for

ourselves you have this goal and there are various ways of achieving it and we choose the last maximally efficient way we choose a difficult way of achieving it just so we can play the game. this volcano marathon is a case in point and altitude of four founds and five hundred meters looms over the start line that's not far off the heights of everest base camp. this event is less than a week before my antarctic rice so i'm aiming to complete three quarters of the cold . i'm hoping this race will provide a tough final test in extreme conditions to rapidly apparence the most brutal few

hours of my running life so far ahead of me. a shortage of oxygen and oversupply of sun sand hill climbs these are conditions that force everyone taking part to dig very deep i'm struggling to breathe struggling with the terrain the urge to stop increases with every stride you decide you decide whether to go on whether you can do this whether you can't do it jonathan katz is a man who knows how i'm feeling he's a psychologist who also enjoys running not just marathons but eighty kilometer ultra marathons i think challenging yourself it has a very. quality i think there's

a feeling of being alive of of pushing yourself of consolation seeing what you know what you can do that really gets you aware of your own kind of mental and physical being when you push yourself too extreme way. i think it's very hard to get that in other parts of your life. the internal discussions taking place in my head my mind for whatever reason ignoring the screaming appeals of my body. i carry on and do eventually hits the thirty kilometer targets i'm aiming for. when you look at a marathon runners mentality it's kind of like why are you doing this you know this is painful you know you might even get and you're you know running a little bit is healthy and running too much may or may not be so really pointless question of you know what what exactly is the mechanism by which people are going to continue doing something in spite of the pain i think what it largely is that

when and when you do that when you're in pain when you're experiencing adversity and you carry on through it it's such a great signal to yourself of success. all motivation must come from yourself and where you find it is another question sometimes you don't know what to do in the middle of the event you can be different from one of them to another. change. in location such as these you actually enjoy doing while you're suffering and i think i'm also the most envious career in the world at the moment and then i watch people suffering a year in advance and the end of everyone that thank you very. this is the hardest market on effort on his part of the past because of that people talk about that's the toughest race i ever did in just the toughest thing i've ever done. just to see others were doing what i did those two sets have. this run was painful enough i'm

now about to take on a full marathon and possibly even harsher conditions. on the southern tip of chile is my jump off point for the heart sick. a final briefing before we fly provides a worrying warning of the freezing temperatures that awaits is what really shuts down first is the fingers and toes and you turn to go to a bit around the growing of spot so a model worth put out for a bit of murder or some sort of. there's a good amount of ation as any to doublecheck i have packed the right kids. so a lot of people ask me exactly what it is i'm going to be waiting to run this city rice in the antarctic on your feet it's basically a pretty regular pair of running shoes extra grip on the bottom a fairly waterproof couple of layers of thick socks hopefully that will be enough

on the body it's just lots of thin layers and then a windproof outer shell pretty cool piece of kit over here this is your face mask hopefully that will protect you from the cold wind but also allowed to breathe through these events here and then the most important thing. road testing some of that equipment is a practical step in my final preparations but just as important is the need to get mentally ready and possibly the greatest appeal running has for me is its ability to relax and focus my mind it's amazing how many times you can have you know it's beautiful things that you think the problems rolling around the end of the run everything actually becomes much clearer it was a very all my life while we was preparing to deliver in the olympic games we

call it autopilot when you're intensity in the longevity of the run as at a certain point there's something about the act of running that it's all stigmatizing and it allows me to. change my perspective on thoughts and ideas that i have and it gives me an ability to meditate on these things. in a much calmer clearer away. i've had plenty of time to meditate and was heading my way. of coming run into the unknown has both concerned and captivated me. but after a six months of training i feel i'm as ready as i'll ever be to take you know. it's a four and a half hour flight from arenas to the camp. and more than fifty other runners from twenty one different countries are about to find out exactly what it is we've let a selves in for you what normally recommend that somebody get in an environment

where they have to really train for it properly right it's not a set up for failure but it presents a problematic level. you have to really be made to not allowing yourself to go to the dark side you have to come to peace with the fact that they're going to be so many unknowns so you have to really open yourself up to the fact that you're going to experience many things that you can't even anticipate you don't want that piece to overwhelm you blind side so that you have to prepare yourself for the feeling of starting to get over well. not much can prepare you for the feeling of stepping into nature's deep freeze the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth minus ninety three degrees celsius was consonant winds can hit three hundred kilometers per hour but for now conditions around the tents were staying in a relatively calm. so this is

a union which will be hung for the next few days and it's around here that i'll be running this marathon the south pole that is about one thousand kilometers in that direction we're in a place so remote even the penguins are coming to visit surrounding news on all sides of the ellsworth mountains that's the highest mountain range in the antarctic should hopefully provide us with some protection from the high winds that can blow through here but i have to say at the moment the weather is being really calm and so was i with all these layers on a much fitting quite warm. everyone is making the weather window knowing it's unlikely to last long this is going to be something. and i can already. just be happy to finish my first marathon i didn't train for so that was a whole different type of tough but i don't think any comparison to the terrain the cold the wind i think it will be draining but it will be awesome when we finish and

know what we just did. the next morning brings rice and some proper weather the temperature is dropping and some confidence levels. last night was absolutely sick my tent my his sleeping bags not quite big enough to cover his head and his head actually froze to the camp but it's about minus twenty now on the clouds are coming in. you know you're going into. an unusual location so it's not just a conventional road marathon you're attempting a marathon were other factors are going to come into play and the terrain and the environment you're running so you're actually doubling the effort involved in many respects i guess the advice i would give is to approach it like an ultra marathon which is a distance longer than americans and very often the way people approach them is to

go off very slow because by managing your resources and if you think you're going just slow go slower still the best advice i would give you is. focus on the step in front of you and i say this really could tell you that you have a tough task ahead of you in those conditions especially. after months of training and imagining what this race would be like reality's now well and truly. the draining effect of the underfoot snow and ice is a maybe it's the strength is being pulled out of my body with every pace. one step it's quite firm and the next step if you like pulling on

a crevasse that's quite difficult and i could catch twenty two there i see. the frozen because you're going googles up your i start to free shop i want to see difficulties i'm starting to wonder whether or not a training run in the desert was absolutely ideal preparation. in between a kilometer spent squinting through frozen goggles i have to remember that sank whatever chances i can to briefly defrost that's really hard since. we know that in a lot of winter sports hockey and other things people sweat a lot but because they don't feel hot or they don't feel as tired as they do in hot weather them i now feel the need to drink water but i think that's when you need to be conscious about drinking water on a regular schedule be it a lack of fluids in my system or too much ice in my ollie's it's not so long before

i start to get somewhat confused. halfway off why i kind of poked my groin after about eight miles which isn't great so that's the schools in the old wife knows you to sweep through the body which is delightful but it's kind of ok you expect the. but in the brief moments when my always on sold together it's so beautiful the landscape is so stunning it's just an inspiration you just got to keep going. as my physical state declines i have to fight to stay mentally positive running i try to remind myself normally makes me feel good and i have after all chosen to be here. when after five hours and thirty five kilometers though any sense of enjoyment has well and truly past. it's minus twenty five degrees celsius and there's ice growing out of my chin. i'm immersed in the sort of mental and physical conflict that consumes most mouth and

runners at some points every step is hurting and giving me plenty of reasons to stop but that same step is also taking me closer to the finish if you push yourself in a marathon under any conditions are going to a point where there's nothing more that you want to do than to stop when those thoughts happen it doesn't mean there's a problem it just means that this is taxing and it's easier to think about ways of freeing yourself from that which ultimately is just stopping sitting on the ground but if the goal is to continue then you really need to give those very little fought and back to what's going to propel you to complete the race. can't be a little pregnant here it's either you know you finish your. friend of mine said this to me during marathon training last year. i was going to give up at mile seventeen during a training run and the way he put it just for some reason me logical sense and that was all i needed he said to me the decision to finish was made when you started

running and. that's it there's no other acceptable outcome but to finish this run. it may not have been stylish quick but after six hours and twenty one minutes of forward motion the finish line doesn't last agree to corporates with my. it's. thank you. that's the end. of my actions were accurate. i. and this race has been like a dot on the horizon for so long and so it should just be in the antarctic as

course syrians who actually finish the marathon a concord believe it. huge sense of relief a fair amount of pain. for just an overwhelming feeling of satisfaction. the race to hit the finish line in first i've done i don't know maybe a hundred fifty marathons in my life but nothing so beautiful with a race against yourself just to finish. never. running has revealed itself to be that rarest of sports. whether rows are yours to write. for me and i made that and. if you had to leave what is your educational but i don't think human beings in general these are fickle because the you finish these

five you want to go to engage it's nice to have more than you want to go. you only want to feel like we are flying that is a dream of if. you can't play a certain level of tennis if you don't have a certain skill set but you can run a marathon maybe very slow but really to put a time and energy you can complete a good a good. thank you there's very few things in the. world that you kind of old in that kind of way it's very difficult to find the sort of time in your life things you do for their own sake and not for the sake of something else i think running has become that for many people a little corner of the allies we say right now i'm going to do this this just because i want to do something no whether it's listen anything else you'd rather be doing those sort of moments reveal the kind of value that's. running gives you an opportunity to be zen like it's

a form of meditation very often because you can become so physically tired that you don't even have energy for told it's on point and everything empties out of your head except that matters and that's where you have your opinion. i don't think i ever got runner's high so to speak until i broke eight miles after that it was it was done i was never going to stop. before that running was a task now the task is waiting for the next rung. constantly searching for that high that that feeling of euphoria is real and it has amazing effect on on the quality of life. and it's something that everybody should try they should try to where they get to that point where they experience that because anybody that doesn't is really missing out on something that is right there for the taking. what i hadn't expected was this marathon becoming about so much more than getting fit that

running would get under my skin so in completely. the training forwards and finishing it would push my body but more importantly my mind so places it had never been before now initially when i finished this run i was talking just have come here it's been one pace but very quickly a sense of restlessness sets in almost depression as i started to question what i've just done. should i have trained harder. faster in the future. i realized many of us have before. finishing a races and more often it's just a detour on the way to the next one. hello

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