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...Dominic Inglot. “I guess the only thing I can take away from the match is playing best for most of it,” Denenberg said. “Traditionally, I have pretty close matches, but this guy was pretty tough.” In a marathon match that outlasted all other play, senior co-captain Gideon Valkin lost in another close match playing at No. 5, 7-5, 7-5. One court over, No. 6 junior Gareth Doran showed signs of his recent injury, losing 6-1, 6-2. In doubles play, No. 1 pairing Kumar...
...called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and down three quarters of a mile of glacier - twice - and looping through a further three Antarctic research stations, the 145 finishers race in hats, gloves, fleece and windbreakers. In fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic...
...Back in 1995, when the first Antarctica Marathon was run, there was no Lonely Planet guide to the continent. But over the past decade, tourism to the region has trebled, according to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators. The marathoners aren't the only adventurous souls holidaying in the Antarctic summer. A geophysicist who leads a tour at Vernadsky, a Ukrainian station visited by the runners two days after their race, says his base receives a ship just about every day this time of year. Data from this research outpost (operated, at the time, by the British) helped scientists...
...March of the Penguins," says Thom Gilligan, president of Boston-based Marathon Tours & Travel, which organizes the Antarctica Marathon. After the film's release, race entries shot up. The 2007 event sold out in 2005. Now the marathon, which was previously held every two years, is annual. Already the 2008 race is sold out and 2009 is half booked...
...That doesn't make it easier to plan a marathon in Antarctica, though. Seventy-five miles off the Antarctic Peninsula, King George Island is one of the most accessible, hospitable points on the continental shelf. But the site is still a two-day sea voyage from the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Tourism regulations prohibit more than 100 people from gathering in the same place at the same time, so the race start must be staggered. And weather and course conditions are always unpredictable - as they are for all Antarctic expeditions. One year, in fact...