PORT ANGELES – Bruce Skinner, Executive Director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and literal globetrotter, has signed on for the adventure of a lifetime.
Skinner will join about 200 others in a marathon run on Saint George’s Island in Antarctica in March. We asked him how one prepares for running a 26-mile race in one of the coldest places on earth.
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Skinner, who is 68, is doing the run as a member of what’s known as the Seven Continents Club.
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Thus far Skinner has completed marathons in the US, Paris, Istanbul, and Sydney, Australia. Antarctica will make it five down, two to go.
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