Dec 12th – Day 32 at Pole – Allen's South Pole Winter-Over 2020 (+)

Weather has cleared up; winds have calmed down and sky has cleared up. Hope it keeps up like this!

Not much is new. We gave a couple tours of the science buildings to people who were leaving this past weekend/ tomorrow and to some of the folks who arrived on the traverse (SPOT 1).

Since SPOT came in, there is now a “road” connecting McMurdo and South Pole.. It also happens to be pretty well packed since they tow lots of heavy stuff. So perfect for running, except that it wasn’t as flat as I expected

Only 1000 miles to McMurdo. Some of this is at least runnable… but it is pretty bumpy and you have to keep moving to find the hard packed in areas.

I ran about 6 miles down the road. Unfortunately I was running with the wind on the way out, and so when I turned around I became pretty cold running into the wind on the way back.