Ready to race at the North Pole

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Bobby Bostic is at the North Pole this weekend to run a marathon. But he's also going to compete against 13 other riders in the first-ever cycling race at the pole. When the running marathon is done, riders will cover 26.2 miles (same distance as the foot runners) in a loop course.

Here's Bobby in Longyearbyen, Norway, trying out the Crescent bike that he'll be using for the race. It features tires with little steel spikes.

Bobby is running the North Pole Marathon because he was the winner of a contest by YourRunning.com (sister site of YourCycling.com) to give away an entry to the event. Since the organizer was also running a bike race (a historic first), Bobby latched on to that challenge, too.