A 350-mile Arctic ultramarathon

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arctic

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a typical marathon is 26.2 miles long

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so this is like 14 of them back to back

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the distance is isolating you're on your

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own for like two days at a time

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and with negative 45 degree temperatures

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it feels even longer

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everything up there is big there's just

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nothing to gauge distant spies nothing

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to judge anything by

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you can see nothing but white

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so you start to think am i asleep or am

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i dreaming this when am i actually

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moving it's like being in a painting

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it took dave six days to finish the race

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and he only slept

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a total of ten hours

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it's that exhaustion he says that causes

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you to lose your mind

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your mind just starts imagining all

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sorts i went through

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an avenue of trees and i thought i was

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going through a disco party and every

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time i approached somebody

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they stopped talking and just looked at

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me

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but you can't stop

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you've got to keep moving you think what

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on earth is that coming