states have privatized the ultimate public function war shadow on al-jazeera. as their arms of iran in doha these are all top news stories a cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of data there have been reports of sporadic fighting in and around the strategic port but reports now say there's an easy car the warring sides had agreed to a truce a peace talks held in sweden last week china's president are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transform the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy she paying promised to open up the world even more but

a few details so. there is no text book of rules to follow for the reforms and opening of china a country with five thousand years of history civilization and with a population of more than one point three billion people no one is in a position to dictate to the chinese people what should or should not be done the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey have arrived in geneva for us led talks on syria most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would negotiate a new syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society bennett smith has the latest from geneva. the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names will be added to another hundred that will form this constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names from

opposition groups and these last fifty russia turkey iran have been haggling over with the u.n. hoping to agree them by the end of today so they can be approved by the u.n. secretary general now when this committee meets the was a hope that they might meet before the end of the year although that seems rather optimistic but this committee of one hundred fifty people must somehow come to agree the terms or changes to syria's constitution before there are elections assad's regime has already said he's not prepared they're not prepared to have a new constitution or only take changes so given our blood day and divisive this war has been it's going to be an enormous challenge for one hundred fifty people to agree to those changes to syria's constitution online holiday rental company b. has denied making a u. turn on its decision to ban listings of properties in illegal settlements of the occupied west bank the company made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has since said the back down after threats of legal action in israel and

the us seventy deca has more from the illegal israeli settlement of in the occupied west bank. the fact that a delegation from air b.n. b. came to drew slim to meet with israel's tourism minister gives an indication of just how much pressure the israelis are putting on the company to reverse its decision and there was some confusion on tuesday initially indicating that air b.n. b. may be reversing its decision to stop its listings in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank you're looking at a fraud this is one of the settlements there are still listings in a fraud also all across the west bank really everybody always said at the time november when it made the statement that this would take time to implement but interestingly certainly it shows how this role is concerned about one of these major international companies highlighting the issue of illegal settlements so this is what the delegation is doing here made it very clear in the statement tuesday evening that this wasn't part of the b.d.s. movement boycott divestment and sanctions that this wasn't a political move and that it was told and you saw it and what it understood was

what they called a complicated and emotional issue and so we have to wait and see if any other statements in may but at the moment air b.n. says everybody says it meant tames its policy that it will stop these listings that moment the listings continue to be advertised so long because parliament has convened for the first time after they re appointment of an eel with him a single as prime minister he's put together a cabinet he hopes will move the country on from the political crisis triggered by his sacking who's a marine it has been signed as manager of manchester united following the club's worst of a premier league start grenier had been in charge at old trafford for any two and a half years to leave with immediate effect those were the news headlines here on the bank with a set of bullets it and thirty minutes time but we continue here with correspondent to stay with us for.

this is one of the world's most beautiful yet unpredictable environments. and it was where i was about to try and run my first ever marathon. she just told my wife and mother they were absolutely right this was a really stupid idea. the question of why we run had months previously been my starting point in the weeks that followed i saw inspiration from some of the

world's best distance runners. want to feel like we are flying that he said dream of if it were asked whether running is something we were born our ancestors were all riders were we're not good at running we're left essentially in the evolutionary dust and enjoyed a less than convincing start to my own road running career as a sixty five year old man a fifty year old woman and a taller old boy that will run faster than me now i was in the ants heartsick starting one of the world's most enlightened marathons was easy enough trying to finish it well that would prove to be rather more complicated bubble found the president calls you a go or you go goes up your arse starts pretty sharp. i'm

live in the middle east in cats or where i work as a sports journalist i run like many people do to stay fit and stay clear of my inbox for an hour or two every week. my job has taken me to sporting events all over the world but few can match a trip i made in two thousand and eight when i went to the north pole to fill my mouth and. start to believe we come into the future but. it's about as well but. it was an experience that inspired me to think i might one day want to do something similar and not just stand around with a microphone. oh so you know i did just no other cold cases. that's me in the noise swarm can't just get rid of my feelings of worthlessness i'm now

getting ready to run a marathon my first run of the art sinking of the north pole but in the antarctic in the south pole. my older brother brian is the one member of my family who's actually run a marathon his ultimately successful trip to the finish line started with a health check up the doctor said yeah you're ok but your quest role is quite high . better watch your blood pressure and he thought about losing some weight so came out of the doctor's real reason to be depressed and thought i need to do something about it when you having a midlife crisis what you mean ok i'll go sports car of the earth folks i've got to have. more field size twelve years younger than me and tops off by running a marathon so there that's one way of looking at it a spade. i think it's quite lazy journalism to be honest. time then to my

journalistic and running game i'm embarking on the biggest physical challenge of my life along the way i'm going to ask why running in all its forms is the sport so many of us choose to do. with. kenya that has produced four of the five fastest ever mouth and run as the perfect place to step up training for mind first . in so many cities and cultures running is something that squeeze then around the rest of people's lives and that's an elite level really struggles for its sanction well there's no danger of that in the kenyan sound of running here so i can very seriously and those that choose to run they side with us have dedication.

in this country of running champions ten has become an unofficial capital. some bonehead others drawn here another promise of training with the best. i want to know why when i watch a marathon on t.v. more often than not it's a kenyan out in front. i can't imagine and deal with all of that and i hear people out of addicted to coffee at home you know it's just that only. the start of the day. a new leaf i had trained hard. so that was my motivation like train hard and it. is just having fun.

with what keeps you power. the cotton feet that you're going to lead to something you notice he's how you actually train. whenever i'm in the race. no that might even was fit it would. depend on what i had this i would do is keep on pushing. knowing that i can beat. it turn is a town where that can do attitude has taken root and the local school a tree is planted every time one of their former students wins a major running title over the years the school grounds have been turned into something of a forest. well thing where this tree based tribute to success tells you is that on what i was taught at school really isn't that i can probably count in kenya it's all about the winning i don't need as any gagnon who runs on this man is uniquely

placed to start telling an englishman why the sort of leisure running i do as a little place here in kenya column are connel arrived in eaten in the one nine hundred seventy s. to work as a teacher and sets up the town's first organized training program. he's since guarded a handful of athletes to the very top including olympic eight hundred metre champion david rudisha the idea of running to school running to the market running to town running to a neighbor's house you know it's in the rural areas it's part of your lifestyle it is something that you've internalized from the time you can walk. in school i was very active and never. for lange's which is a. myth i use around the home when i'm coming back to school i didn't have an idea what i was doing but i was training with no. running for me

it was a way of transport coming from one side to another one and if you make sure each test wickets you have to go to school every morning sometimes you're late must end because you need to catch up with your closest. and olympic legend from my own country house put into context just what sort of a head start this might give a kenyan runner in the west life is has become very much easier physically for most people cept certainly doesn't take things easy he was chairman of the london twenty twelve olympic organizing committee as a runner he want to impede goals and set twelve world records i was thirty six was i just see how the eight hundred meter world record for eighteen years. i came from a different set up on iran as quickly as my contemporaries from africa were running

at the time in my country u.k. young people when they get to the age of fifty on balance are about fifty percent less fit than they were or less active and they were when they were nine children that once walked to school rode bikes to school sometimes even ran to school like i did don't infer all sorts of reasons and that's a pattern but certainly in advanced countries is is not unusual. being active from a young age and doubtfully contributes to kenya's running culture. of us of all good kenyans might have the perfect d.n.a. to run for that the thin air of high altitude i was there is here any ten helps condition the body for distance running. but simple economics rather than complex science could also explain a lot. of. sources

say it with laws without money is tough and that's what i'm for those who are like me now i ask nothing. in my opinion is it i know when saw about maybe the. i got money. out to some part of my saturn you know life without money even now maybe i'm coming from trade and i don't know what michael into it in the house because nothing to me i don't know maybe even like i'm on the take off and some of you. think of the motivation for a casual run it can always be quite an interesting one when you find yourself out in the middle of nowhere i was just a camera man and some disinterested lost all to keep you company on the run it's

hurting washing not just stop what you very quickly learn here is that the local writers just don't have that luxury of choice to stop if i stop talking so darn hard watch t.v. and get on with the rest of my life if they choose to stop running i mean to have it cease and hard to go back to. the kids around here see more elite athletes you know owning property building a big house driving a car and you know it doing better for their families and that's a fantastic motivation because they see lived. is a career in or as a way of out of poverty as you said we did and to make a career we don't burn for fun when you know that i have nor the option in life or i don't have any other we'll. even realize then you get to do the all you want you will be most of their motivation from the thief or been there before

them they're living aboard lives and they're driving toward cars. i know you are an eight hundred meter runner can you beat david rudisha that is something i can do i'm training these sorts of training i'm armani's also. i'm training with champions that is so my hash what it is that one time i will be a champ. my time talking to edwin has really helped to put my own challenge in the context i'll be running a marathon because i want to not because i have to. training can be arduous and it's certainly time consuming but witnessing the levels of sacrifice and commitment here has convinced me that in order to be ready for the antarctic taking shortcuts just isn't an option. well it's disheartening as it might be i have to accept that i'm not going to win any marathons or make any money from running but i still want

to run and that's the question i still have to answer why do i and millions of other plautus still want to get on the road and run as best we can. one place to find more than a few clothes doing the best they can is at the new york marathon my own rice on ice is now a month away two more contrasting events it would be hard to imagine but in common with the vast majority of the fifty thousand runners here i'll be running not to win just to finish.

the scale of this event on the level of f it's on show i was definitely sharpening my own focus. and it looks frightening just. on the inspiring in equal measure. if you will experience i had the privilege to do boston three years ago but i mounted crowd and support just entire day with unbelievable one year ago even when i went to the shop i went to my car sit on the col did not the united states show new york yankees know me i'm a bona we made it. there be it outdoors in my time it's just wonderful on your with people when you do these races just not going like it. glengarry is a psychologist and an experienced runner who might just be able to explain why so

many far from elite athletes like myself are driven to run a marathon. when you look at marathon running it's kind of like it takes recreational running and then it takes it a step beyond so i think that the psychological needs that marathon running fills for people in westernized societies now are completely beyond health that's very much about showing someone i can do this i can achieve something that everyone thinks is extraordinary and once you realise that you can do that and you see that in yourself you start to believe other things about yourself i can definitely glenn is saying i want to see how all responds of putting myself in harm's way and i really won't know how i'm going to react to the distance the race all the cold and so i'm actually there the idea of a marathon in the south pole area on believable you know i mean it's like it's like you've got two major adverse things right up against each other you know a marathon your first marathon experience to such an extreme climbing

interconnecting those together in that kind of experience you know that you have few few options but if you run into that i think you're just going to have to muscle through it time i think to ask a medical professional if i can be assured my body won't crack up on the antarctic ice while that's. that's a tough question. i've never seen anybody that anybody who's preparing for a raise like that when he's not laughing at me. is a doctor who specializes in trying to keep runners on their feet i guess really listening to your body from the beginning to and then seeing if anything is out of the ordinary when it comes to your joints your bottom of your feeds your skin you know i think will be an important thing and before anything gets worse as you're running to stop and monitor and make sure everything is ok you know anybody who signs up for

a marathon should be fully aware of the amount of training that. should be involved and the kind of pain and aches and all kinds of negative things that are associated with running marathons people do need to understand that when they're taking up running as a sport there is an inherent risk of injury that comes with it and when they have a set target and they're so determined to get there that they try to either ignore or mask the pain or any signal that the body is giving them that could be a cause for disaster. running barefoot probably won't be advisable in the antarctic but a sizable minority of runners believe taking your shoes off is the key to staying injury free while you're trying and at this point i'm nothing if not open minded when you're barefoot running you take short strides walk him is

a running coach shuns traditional trying is going to stand here without looking at the mets you know. one leg so ready don't look down look up stay close the line and as you can see you're all over the place here he says the shoes we think are protecting our joints could be doing quite the opposite so noble pushing this big on the book on your heel you can hit the ground harder and more. because you have a cushion you're wearing heels as a guy i tell guys this all the time you're wearing a one inch to two inch heels just like high heels so that shortens your killie's tent and over time it definitely shortens and it does not get longer and which causes all sorts of other issues once you mess with your foot and your ankle the mechanics there it's going to mess with you mean mechanics and you're good at finding them with a blade is your reason ok that's it i think people come up to me all the time and

say you know is it dangerous to run in central park or anywhere for that matter barefoot and i'd say the opposite it's safer you know allows me to feel the ground allows me to be more in touch with my surroundings and i'm more aware and i feel more comfortable when i'm running that way as well now i run pain free and i enjoy my runs a lot more than i used to. don't himself would agree the benefits style isn't for everyone on stage injury free. and i have to say i'm not too happy to be feeling the ground beneath my feet quite so directly. a few days later my train is all safely back home and i'm getting ready to spend an evening with new york's orchard street runs it's the sort of group that can now be found in many major cities i'm hoping they can give me a final push in my premarital preparations i. lugar's

originally started because i was trying to get a girl to run with and two years later still going on the girls is no longer in the picture but the group has. the advantages right off the bat we're just social interaction and like minded individuals coming together for for a run created a dynamic that i think was more specific than going to a bar or going to a party most people are not working nine to five jobs they're in creative fields they're living downtown they're young in my. mom and it's great. to play with. i said a different route every week to keep things interesting and to challenge people in different ways and that sign amec is what makes it appeal to what i think is a different type of runner than the cliché. running by myself i'm more likely to swallow slow down or not really push myself like riding with other people.

person first. stay with them stay with them stay with them when you're running side by side with somebody it's like feel not easy that you're running the same route i think there's something more social about it in a lot of people recognize even if you're not speaking out like used to be a competitive runner now live the new york life most nights and want to stay fit you wanted something that was you know convenient but people that were just about on it and it was just it fits my lifestyle perfectly. the group's approach to parched rice refueling is definitely a paling that. i face like that. but too much time spent in a bar in new york's lower east side probably won't how come the start of the world's most marathon that's now just three weeks away it's time to try and get

rice ready. to. haul from our food. so it's not going to matter what it was. i. was i. we have a rather here today i believe for the english he is running here to day and the very short time he will be running in get this and aren't. that's constructive i can tell all body and the way we'd all still wish him all the luck

in the world i'm about to start finding out if weeks of training have actually paid off. that. i. want him to believe. me. it was i. i. in malaysia schooling is a luxury for children of writing good muslim refugees but. every child deserves an opportunity for faith and creativity arms them with the skills to overcome any hurdle and seize the threat to his school's existence as

a test of his faith. caution school of parts of the viewfinder asia seems on al-jazeera. the latest news as a prank yellow rebellion will continue. but until next week with detailed coverage of criticism of capitalist economics a fifty six billion dollar i am that's the old for argentina from around the world these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts and. they could become a lost generation. one beautiful modified car six hundred hour. limit tearing up the truck in the west bank. challenge stereotype.

living life in the. target during. the day. you know. these are all top news stories a ceasefire has come into effect in the yemeni city of data there have been reports of sporadic fighting in the underground the strategic poor but reports now say there's an uneasy calm the warning signs of agree to a truce a peace talks held in sweden last week international observers are due to arrive to monitor. china's president celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transform the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy she has to open up to the world even more but few details.

so you go your job there is no text book of rules to follow for the reforms and opening of china a country with five thousand years of history civilization and with a population of more than one point three billion people no one is in a position to dictate to the chinese people what should or should not be done in the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey arrived in geneva for un led talks on syria the most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would negotiate a new syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society. online holiday rental company air b.n. b. has denied making a u. turn on its decision to ban listings of properties in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the company made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has since said that air b.n. b. backed down after threats of legal action in israel and the us stephanie decker has

more from the illegal israeli settlement. later on in the program moving on and britain's prime minister treason may has met with her cabinet to discuss preparations for the possibility of britain leaving the e.u. without a brics agreement that scenario has been made more likely by a deadlock in parliament over heard of all steel with the e.u. with just over one hundred days until britain is due to leave she's yet to win the support of a deeply divided parliament and she's delayed the vote on her deal to mid january who is a marine who has been sacked as manager of the english club manchester united following the club's worst of a premier league start were you had been in charge old trafford for only two and a half years to leave with immediate effect those were the headlines i'm back with the al-jazeera news hour in thirty minutes next we continue with part two of our the records pontiff. thank.

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this florida run is a small scale event where the emphasis for those running either a short distance twenty one. in like me. but i'm also building up to the role of the more serious business of my first. which will be. a huge undertaking as far as i'm concerned but it's the sort of thing humans will do to distance running was key to survival. humans who were not good at running were essentially in the evolutionary hunting was a very basic aspect of what our ancestors did and you have to run to get the game and long distance running abilities are particularly effective for a long time and yet the game eventually where the animals you know.

we have the luxury of not exercising working very little for food of eating things that are high fat and high sugar in abundance and i think that's very evolutionarily on natural. the way that i feel if there. is proof positive that that's something that we're engineered mentally and physically to do there's no other way to get that feeling that i've experienced but something about running taps into something so deep it's gathering days when you're in a pack hunting a wild animal i feel like this is a similar experience. might be wondering just how useful out of being. but i do at least make it to the finish line hand. well you know well paul from the from the hot run seems to be pale it 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 zero zero. zero. my parents were on holiday naipaul i don't do a great job of further boosting my confidence levels well he's been with me in my group 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 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 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. 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 take. a tougher 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 mouth and. 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 in some ways you know bring people out to shoot where they're going to be ghastly for oxygen as you know almost fifteen thousand feet control in 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 a less than 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 calls . i. was. 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 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 role ward quality i think there's

a feeling of being alive of pushing yourself of 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 to 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 kilometers it's hard it's i mean full. and 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 points to this 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 it can be different from one of them to another. choose. any 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 until i watch people suffering a year in advance and the end of every one of that thank you very. this is the hardest smart enough effort on his part in the past because of that people talk about that's the toughest race i ever did that in the toughest thing i've ever done to upset or see others were doing what i did i was just it was headed. this wrong

was painful enough i'm now about to take on a full marathon and possibly even harsher conditions. on the southern city of chile is my jump off point for the ons heartsick. 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 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 win proof out a shelf pretty cool piece of kit over here this is a 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 through full things that you think of problems rolling around to the end of the run everything actually becomes much clearer it was a very important part of my life while we was preparing to deliver in the olympic

games we call it autopilot when you're intensity in the long jeopardy 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 and run into the unknown has both concerned and captivated me. but after 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 on this continent 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 where in a place so remote even the penguins are both 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 kind so as i with all these layers on a much fitting quite warm. third 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 do. 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 and the clouds are coming in. you know you're going to america in 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 that is to

go off very slow by managing your resources and if you think you're going just go slower still the best advice i would give you is. focus on the step in front of you and that. is really 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 you feel like pulling on

a crevasse that's quite difficult and it's going to catch twenty two they're always . there for a reason because you're going googles up your i start to free shop here one of the 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 to thank whatever chances i can to briefly defrost that's really hard. you 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 they might now theel 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 like how 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. with 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 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 move back to what's going to propel you to complete the rights. can 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 is for some reason the 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 road . 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 work i wish. i had. 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 i can't quite believe it. huge sense of elation a fair amount of pain. for just an overwhelming feeling of satisfaction. the race to hit the finish line and 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 doing. 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 physical because before you finish

these five you want to go to engage and 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 willing to put a time and energy you can complete the judge in 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 week saying right now i'm going to do this this just because i want to do it and for no other leads listen any thing 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 thoughts at some point and everything empties out of your head except what 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 i. constantly searching for that high that that feeling of euphoria is real and it has amazing effect on on the quality of life that. 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 on the 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. crude i have run better should i have trained harder would i be faster in the future. i realized then as many others have before me. finishing a race is gravy and more often it's just a detour on the way to the next one.

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