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Wayne Pollock and Peter Ferris MBE are two ordinary people running extraordinary death defying marathons on two of the most inhospitable places on earth, the North and South Poles. Their mission is to raise £100k for The Ulster Cancer Foundation.
They are also organising with the help of Ulster Cancer Foundation a Summer Santa Run or Walk consisiting of 1 mile, 2 miles or 3 miles at Cutters Wharf Belfast on 21st June 2009.
Please visit www.worldsbiggestsantarun.com where download registration and sponsor forms are available.
Runners/ walkers can dress up as Santa or just wear something RED. Ask friends, family and work colleagues to join you in this challenge.
Entry fees are ar £10, £5 for student / OAP and £25 for family of 4.
Here are a list of some of the prizes for the top fund raisers. Other brilliant prizes will go to the Best Dressed Male and Female Santas and fastest Santas etc.
Just some of the PRIZES up for Grabs
On 1st April 2008 Peter and Wayne ran the world’s coolest marathon on top of the world, the North Pole Marathon at 90 Degress North.
Add -42C and a wind chill factor of -60C and this was a marathon for the ‘die-hards’. You will ask yourself how they managed to overcome the extreme sub-zero temperatures in one of the remotest parts of the planet.
There was just a mere 6 to 12 feet of frozen water, ice and snow separating The North Pole from 12,000 feet of theArctic Ocean. Both athletes with frostbite physically and mentally pushed themselves to the edge. Less than half of the competitors finished.
If that is not enough, Peter and Wayne will run the Antarctic Ice Marathon, another 26.2 miles of sheer hell on earth on 12th December 2009. It will take place at 80 Degrees South at an altitude of 3,000 feet. The Antarctic Ice Marathon is the southernmost marathon on earth. The following day they will run the Antarctic Ice Half Marathon.
Two days later with aching limbs and with possible frostbite, the two intrepid athletes will run the Antarctic 100km / 62 mile UltraMarathon. Undoubtedly, “the world’s coldest 100km”. This ultra marathon challenge is reserved for only the toughest of endurance athletes. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest and driest continent on the planet. The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was -89°C (-129°F) at the Russian Vostok station inAntarcticain 1983. At this temperature steel will shatter and water will explode into ice crystals. The continent also experiences Katabatic winds, reaching 300 km per hour (185 miles/hour). If they survive all this, they will then run the Sao Paulo , Brazil New Years Eve Marathon.
By the end of 2009, Wayne and Peter will have become the first athletes in the world to have completed these Polar Extreme events.
Peter has run 322 marathons world wide raising over £350k for charity, an Irish Record.
Contact:- UlsterCancer Foundation, 40-44 Eglantine Ave, Belfast BT9 6DX
Email neillgrainger@ulstercancer.org
Peter Ferris MBE - Email run4peter@hotmail.com
Wayne Pollock - Email wayne@ce-travel.co.uk