Snow joke: Ultra marathoner trains in freezer
It’s 72 degrees and sunny, the way it usually is here. In a city full of golf courses and beaches, Mike Pierce is spending his afternoon … in a commercial freezer?
The 42-year-old is training for the Antarctic 100K on Dec. 15, so he needs a place that’s really, really c-c-cold to prepare for the ultra marathon, which will cover 62.1 miles on the f-f-frozen continent on the bottom of the planet.
Mike Pierce runs laps around a freezer at a cold storage facility in San Diego. Pierce is training in the sub-zero temperatures as he prepares for the Antarctic Ice Marathon held in December. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press)
Two or three times a week, he heads down the freeway from his suburban home to a cold-storage warehouse and heads for freezer box No. 9.
There, in a 60-by-40-foot space, among pallets of frozen food piled to the ceiling, with fans blowing in frosty air and the thermometer hovering around minus-5, he can simulate all the discomforts of Antarctica, minus the ice and rock.
Of course, most people think he’s crazy.
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