Shirley Thompson

54-year-old, Irish born, now living in France. Shirley took up running in her 40s and was hooked. She has since finished numerous marathons and ultra marathons in urban, desert, mountain and jungles environments, but her one nemesis remains the cold. Tremulous and excited to attampt the Ice Marathon, Shirley hase followed the race since its inception and it has been a lifelong dream of hers to visit Antarctica. She hope to run both the marathon and the 100km. Shirely’s "day" job is organising jungle marathons (Brazil and Vietnam).