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Fox's crossing
46.3 km
One day of an arctic fox's walk across the ice.
Run or ride 46.3 km. The fox's daily average.
- It stands on
- Marathon run
What it takes · Running
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The Marathon
- Weekly distance
- About 46 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long run
- 22 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing the Marathon counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
What it takes · Cycling
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Nothing. This is where the ladder starts.
- Weekly distance
- About 46 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long ride
- 35 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In 2018 a young female arctic fox walked 3,506 km from Svalbard to Canada. She crossed sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet in 76 days. That is 46.3 km a day on average. Source: Fuglei and Tarroux 2019, Polar Research.
The ladder
Running
- 5 km/
- Forager's day/
- First flight/
- Mawson's last miles/
- 10 km/
- Gold march/
- Hunter's day/
- Nut grove/
- Twelve-miler/
- Wallace's Line/
- Wildebeest's day/
- Half Marathon/
- Toutle avalanche/
- Roland's pass/
- Olympus Mons/
- Dawes's ride/
- Laki fissure/
- Royal Road/
- Legion's march/
- Persistence hunt/
- Norwegian thirty/
- Chalk Gate/
- Racing the horses/
- Rim to rim/
- Barclay's walk/
- Long fall/
- Nijmegen day/
- South Georgia/
- Marathon/
- Fox's crossing
Cycling
- Fox's crossing