When I was at Fossil Bluff the Rothera half marathon was going on with people running around the crushed rock runway for charity. I had promised to do it but because I was in the field I took some skis instead.

The runway at Fossil Bluff is slightly uphill so it took some effort as the slight downhill was upwind so that didn’t give me any relief. At 1.45km it was many many times around. I ended up carrying some pebbles and leaving them at the end so that I knew how many times I had gone around!

The shadows got longer as I got to the end of the 21.9km half marathon on skis.

Tired at the end at 9pm at night after 4 1/2 hours on the skis.