10 Extreme Marathons

Posted by John Farrier in Sports on July 19, 2009 at 6:43 am


Competing a grueling marathon isn’t challenging enough for some runners.  Woman’s Day has a list of ten marathons, some of them run under brutal conditions.  The picture above is from Greenland’s marathon.  Others featured include a marathon run up and down the steps of the Great Wall of China, one that starts at 17,000 feet above sea level, and another run at the Dead Sea.

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4 comments to "10 Extreme Marathons"

  1. Hugi
    July 19th, 2009 at 7:05 am

    The annual Icelandic Laugavegur Marathon is a real killer too...

    http://bit.ly/4Bk7sI
    http://bit.ly/NnK5V

  2. m. smith
    July 19th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Amazing that people will tackle marathons in such areas, just goes to show that will power can do it .

  3. KG
    July 20th, 2009 at 2:24 am

    They left off one my husband has competed in--The Bataan Memorial Death March:

    http://www.bataanmarch.com/

  4. Xinavera
    July 20th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    There are plenty of extreme races. This is a nice list of marathon-distance ones that fit some definition or another of most extreme (even if it's most elvis impersonators).

    Ultras are a different beast. We can have a list of extreme races (at any length) later.


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