After a 6-Year Running Break, This Fitness Entrepreneur Took on the Antarctica Marathon

Runner's World ^ | March 30, 2019 | Paige Triola

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

After a six-year hiatus from running, Anne Mahlum got back into it big time, finishing up her goal of completing a marathon on every continent. Her last remaining one? Antarctica.

She crossed that off her list on March 17, and she did it for a good cause: She ended up raising $102,927 for the New York City chapter of Back on My Feet, a nonprofit she had founded in 2007 that uses​ running and community to empower people experiencing homelessness.

While Mahlum hadn’t laced up in six years, she wasn’t inactive. She had been busy growing her boutique fitness company Solid Core—a high-intensity workout system that uses slow and controlled movements to work muscles to failure—which put her worldwide marathon goal on hold. However, the dream resurfaced, and she decided to finish what she started.

“I was taking inventory of my life and thinking about some goals that I had set for myself,” Mahlum said. “I had kept saying for years, ‘Oh, I’ve run a marathon on every continent but Antartica.’ Finally, I just said, ‘Am I ever gonna get this thing done? It’s time to commit.’”

In late January of this year, she reached out to the president of Marathon Tours, who is also a board member of Back On My Feet, to see if she could get placed on the waitlist for the following year’s Antarctica Marathon. He responded two days later with the news that there had been a cancelation—an open spot for the 2019 race was hers if she wanted it.

[WKUHilltopper]

Did Nazis and aliens chase him the entire way?

[WKUHilltopper]

her, rather.

[nwrep]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You’ll have to ask HER whether Aldridge a.k.a. Wilson took any interest in her.

[wally_bert]

I hope that the run nut spouse doesn’t get the idea to try it.

Trekking to that pointless Cooper River Bridge run event is plenty of misery.