Thirty-eight Russian enthusiasts ran the Cold Pole – Oymyakon (marathon) in the coldest place on earth in Yakutsk, a frozen city of 300,000.
The temperature was a cool -55°C (-67°F). From Moscow to Oymyakon it is 5298.2 kilometres (3292 miles) northwest.
Twelve men and two women finished the marathon. The winners received 100,000 rubles (1,038 euros). Konstantin Dragunov won in three hours and seven minutes, followed by Mikhail Aprosimov in the time of 3:36 followed by Albert Sivtsev 3:57.
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This headline is very poorly written. Please rewrite
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3:07, wow. That’s pretty incredible for those conditions, and the perfect time for LetsRun regulars.
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8:34 3k & a 1:09:10 half marathon
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3:07 is where excellence starts.
We know that for a very long time.
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3:07, a time that takes much hard work and talent to achieve
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Hard at work wrote:
3:07, a time that takes much hard work and talent to achieve
A time that rojo could only hope to achieve
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VaporBoi wrote:
Hard at work wrote:
3:07, a time that takes much hard work and talent to achieve
A time that rojo could only hope to achieve
It requires incredible dedication.
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Keep in mind that Russia has a state sponsored doping program. His prs are likely enhanced.
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The top ten male finishers were deemed fit enough to fight, immediately conscripted, and then sent to the front in Ukraine!
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How did Yuki do?
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“I almost lost myself on the course” said Dragunov
Well, that would have been an immediate DQ applied when they found body.
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Hard at work wrote:
3:07, a time that takes much hard work and talent to achieve
What is special about this time that it keeps popping up? 3:03 is 7’ pace, so there is at least some round numberness to it, but 3:07?
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Laziness is not a protected class wrote:
3:07 takes a great amount of dedication, hard work, and talent to achieve. For these reasons, we value it as a great time.
How is it very different in that respect from 3:06 or 3:08?
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And even after seeing this we'll still have the occasional poster claiming running in the cold will freeze your lungs.
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3:07 is not fast, it’s just not
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No, it might not be fast but it was in -55 freaking degrees all you meatheads. Just enduring three hours of endurance activity in that is absolute savagery.
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That's a great result in those conditions.
I am still amused by posters who build up a 307 marathon.
It's a decent time for a moderately serious hobby jogger type runner.It takes harder work to run 26 minutes for 8km.
I guess I should be happy for those who glorify the 307 marathon.. If they worked as hard as they could and that was the best result they got, maybe it meant a lot to them.
A 307 marathon doesn't impress me because I ran verifiably better times.
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