[NativeSon]

Good luck with that, chief ...

[Vendome]

I’d try that.

[Deaf Smith]

Helps for the guys to wear a battery operated, heated cup.

[allendale]

Trophies and Darwin awards to all participants.

[Track9]

You can learn a lot by almost dying.

[sparklite2]

disciplines allowed in the race: running, cycling, skiing, and kick-sledding

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I’d win the gold medal in shivering.

[Steely Tom]

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[PGR88]

You can’t stop. Your sweat will make you wet. at -30 Deg. F, you’ll freeze fast.

[Jack Hammer]

Lunatics. End of story.

[Vermont Lt]

There would have to be something wonderful in front of me, or something really terrifying behind me.

[dhs12345]

Darn. This is not at all good.

[jonascord]

What could be more fun than frost bitten sinuses and noses? That blue/black look to the cheeks and nose is such a complexion enhancer.

Google frost-bite images. Just wow.

Any time one of these stories pops up, I remember Jim Fixx. Healthiest guy in the cemetery.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Shrinkage

[albie]

Stupid.

[Artcore]

I don’t think breathing cold air during exertion is really good for your heart.

[buffyt]

It is 61F here right now in Lago Vista Texas (N.W> of Austin, on Lake Travis) It is gray foggy damp, I am staying INDOORS with a space heater warming my frozen legs....

[HotHunt]

I used to be a marathon runner and a 10k road racer in my "yut".

The coldest I ever ran in was a 10-mile training run in 54 degrees below zero which included the wind chill, in Kansas City, MO. The actual temperature by itself was quite a bit below zero but I don't remember what the exact temperature was.

The only adverse affect I experienced was it burnt the skin on the tops of my thighs, like sunburning them. The skin peeled off in a week and I was back to normal.

In the forty years I raced and trained competitively, I never wore sweats or long pants. Always running shorts.

As the article explains, most people don't realize that your body produces a great amount of heat when running and keeps you toasting warm if you cover your upper torso, you head, and your hands, where most of your heat escapes. And you don't stop for any length of time. My biggest fear was slipping a falling on the snow or ice and breaking an ankle or a leg and freezing to death before I could get help.

Your thighs have the largest arteries in the body running through them so they are just fine without covering them.

Most long-distance runners prefer to run in cooler or cold weather because the heat you generate doesn't overtake the body's ability to deal with it. Running in hot weather can be much riskier as far as trying to cool off, especially if it's humid.

But being out in that kind of cold for 135 miles is for people with bigger balls that I have. :-)

[philetus]

It's like nothing has ever been done before in the P̶o̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶V̶o̶r̶t̶e̶x̶ arctic air.

[grey_whiskers]

And I thought the Minnesota IronMan bike ride (in April) was bad-ass. One year it was in the 20s with sleet and 20mph headwinds; one year it was 36 F and raining.

No longer held, unfortunately.