This is Marathon Training Academy Episode 374.

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Welcome to the MTA podcast helping you go the distance. In this episode you will hear how Angie

stumbled into running marathons. What gave me the idea to start the MTA podcast 12 years ago?

Our favorite and most difficult races that we've done, plus the lessons we've learned along the

way. And don't forget, inside the Academy you can get all of our awesome courses, training plans,

and more. Find out how to join when you visit marathonstrainingacademy.com.

So if you've been struggling with running in the cold recently, think of Vasili Lukin,

who recently ran the coldest marathon in the world up in Yakusha, Northern Siberia,

where temperatures were negative 53 degrees Celsius. That's negative 63 Fahrenheit.

Streamly cold. He finished in three hours, 22 minutes. So that's an average of 447 per kilometer

or 742 per mile. Hey, we still cold. He want to get inside. And this is being built as the

world's coldest marathon. That's right. So you can see pictures of the runners and they're

just bundled up from head to toe, kind of just with their eyes showing. And even that section is

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