Three students of online university to run the marathon on King George Island on Feb. 26, 2007

Minneapolis (PRWEB) September 10, 2006 -- Capella University, an accredited online university and leader in online education, is the presenting sponsor of the next Antarctica Marathon, which will be held on King George Island on Feb. 26, 2007. Capella has 16,000 students and offers bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in education, psychology, human services, business and technology.


Nearly 200 runners, including a wheelchair athlete, will compete in the marathon, and three of them will be Capella students. The course, which has a figure-eight design and traverses both glacial and rocky terrain, loops through scientific research bases of Uruguay, Chile, China, and Russia. The course is also often peppered with “spectators” such as chinstrap penguins and southern elephant seals. Temperatures at the time of the marathon will likely range from 10 degrees to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Capella’s student runners will work on their university coursework by satellite on the journey to Antarctica and during their stay there. They will also blog about their training and the competition at www.capella.edu/antarcticamarathon.

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