Alexandra Hanson

Alexandra will be running her seventh marathon at the North Pole. After running the Antarctic Ice Marathon in 2013, Alexandra evidently developed a taste for running in cold and snow, which has earned her quite the reputation with her local running team. She has previously run the Athens Classic in Greece in 2009, the Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. in 2011, and the Cape Cod Marathon in Massachusetts in 2012. The North Pole will now mark her halfway point to completing the Grand Slam, which is Alexandra's goal, although she does not have a specific timeline for doing so. In addition to fulfilling her own enjoyment of adventuring off the beaten path, she is running in memory of her grandfather, who spent years living and teaching in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States (inside the Arctic Circle), and who was a lifelong runner until Parkinson's disease shackled his stride.