Go Run The WORLD^SM

Running never appealed to me, until I trained for my first marathon over ten years ago. Little did I know, it would become a habit more welcome than my morning coffee. It even transformed my journalism career.

Focused on the glories of crossing the finish line at the New York City Marathon, the drudgeries of pounding the pavement long distances dissolved as I discovered the power of sport. Physical and emotional changes cascaded through my life, unexpectedly rewarding my determination to complete this long-range goal.

Never intending to run another 26.2 mile race, I discovered that there was a marathon in Antarctica. This rekindled fantasies of traveling to the bottom of the world when I studiously flipped through National Geographic magazines as a child. At the Antarctica Marathon, my first adventure race, I learned that a man had completed a marathon on every continent of the world, but a woman had yet to achieve that feat. Determined to become that woman, I raced around the world, and achieved two Guinness World Records.

After Antarctica, culture and adventure became the primary motives for selecting and training for a race. Trekking three weeks to the starting line of the Everest Marathon just below base camp, runners were allowed one small duffel bag stuffed with camping equipment and a single change of clothes. It was the thrill of a lifetime that taught me just how little I really needed.

Writing and publishing stories about races stretching across the globe from the Great Wall of China to the North Pole have become my most fulfilling assignments.

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