RUN A MARATHON ON ANTARCTICA

Are you an adventurous runner searching for something unique? Sign up now for the inaugural Race the Jet Marathon, a 26.2 miles running race across frozen Antarctica taking place next February. For the price of just $24,000, White Desert Antarctica, a luxury adventure company, will gather everyone together in Cape Town, South Africa, where you will be prepped for what’s to come. Then, travel in style in a private Gulfstream 550 luxury jet, reaching Wolf’s Fang, Antarctica in around five hours. Within minutes of landing, the runners are off, in temperatures that should be between 10 and 23 degrees. The gimmick of the Race the Jet Marathon is that flight regulations legally limit the Gulfstream’s time on the ground to five hours. That means the plane is taking off at five hours whether you’re on it or not. For that reason, a previous, verified marathon finish under four hours is required to apply. Runners who miss the cutoff aren’t truly stranded – they spend the night in one of White Desert’s luxury residential pods and share a cargo plane with a load of the camp’s garbage back to South Africa the next day. Sign up soon – the field is limited to 24 participants.
* So you gotta be crazy, and rich, and athletic. Well, one out of three ain’t bad.
* It’s good the training is in South Africa, ’cause that’s almost identical to the South Pole.
* For motivation, after 10 miles they release the polar bears. (We know, we know – wrong pole.)
* $24,000 – or for $30, there’s a guy at Sam’s Club will let you use a treadmill in the meat locker.