![]() Perhaps this plants the seed that begins your extreme sports adventures or offers a gift book idea for that extreme sport enthusiast on your holiday gift list. She describes how taken she became with the people and partners she encountered in her racing. Holly was also the first international woman to to place in the Everest Marathon in 2018. She shares her experiences with training, planning, and gear for ultramarathons as well as nutritional tips for fueling the body, giving us a sample of the wonderful book she wrote: Ultramarathon Mom: From the Sahara to the Arctic. Holly ran the Polar Circle Marathon with temperatures low enough to cause frostbite within minutes. Not long after tackling the grueling 257-kilometer ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert known as the Marathon de Sables, she challenged herself with the opposite extreme in Greenland. This week we meet Holly Zimmermann, a mother of 4 who has endeavored to take on some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult foot races. Imagine, if you will, racing in the extremes of both of these scenarios. ![]() In the southern hemisphere, the shorts and tank tops are coming out and runners are mindful to take it super easy in the heat and humidity. In the northern hemisphere, we are layering up more and more every week and lamenting about the cold. ![]() ![]() This is the time of year where each latitudinal half of the planet enters into its deep temperature seasons. ![]() Holly Zimmermann, Author of Ultramarathon Mom ![]()
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