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Update 4/10/2011

Spelling corrected. Her original is below.

I finished April 10th, 2011, Sunday at 3:50pm. with amazing company including members of the Inuvik Run Club, members of the community, media, and local RCMP. Other runners joined me at the 30 km mark for the final leg. It was truly an Arctic Challenge. I had at least three times where I questioned how I was going to make it. I almost became one with the ice road as I was battling the bitter conditions that I was faced with. The wind was high and it was below -40 when I was nearing Tuktoyaktuk. I got enormous encouragement and warm wishes from passer bys and especially the truckers who I shared the ice road with. On the way back I had two weak moments between 70-90km into the run and again at the 48km before the finish. Running back was easier because I had constant support from the Inuvik Run Club members (vehicle following me and runners spending a lot of time running with me) and I didn't have to pull the sled. The last 30km I was accompanied with about 20 runners which helped me to locate within myself some extra energy to allow me to push through. At the end, at the entry into the town of Inuvik, it was an amazing entry with a convoy of vehicles, including local police and media, and all the runners, and their families. People were chanting "Alicja, Alicja" and I was chanting back "Inuvik, Inuvik." This run was about helping raise awareness and funds for the Inuvik Homeless Shelter and so far we have approximately $20,000 and counting. Thank you everyone for your incredible support and encouragement along the way. Thank you Inuvik Run Club and the community of Inuvik who embraced me as one of their own. When I leave tomorrow I will take part of Inuvik with me and this experience will remain in my heart. It's been a great journey and experience. Photos

Alicja standing in falling snow at night in a yellow hooded jacket and goggles, snow gaiters over her boots, holding her gloves.
2011
A figure hauling a black sled by a long line across a flat expanse of snow and ice.
2011
Looking down at a pair of running shoes standing on dark, deeply cracked lake ice.
2011
A night portrait in a yellow jacket, hat and face covering frosted white, a headtorch strap across the forehead.
2011
A field of jagged pressure ice stretching to the horizon under a clear sky.
The rear window of a red van hand-lettered Alicja or Bust, with Ali's Arctic Challenge, Ice Road 2011 and 360 km written around it.
2011
A runner crossing a wide frozen expanse in the low mauve light of a polar dusk.
2011
A line of people in winter clothes walking up a snow-banked road past parked vehicles.
2011
A red support vehicle marked Arctic Challenge parked on packed snow outside a building.
2011
A large group posed for a photograph in a hall, some standing and some kneeling, several wearing headtorches.
2011
A large group posed for a photograph in a hall, some standing and some kneeling, several wearing headtorches.
2011
Alicja in a hat and jacket handing something to a seated woman in an office hung with framed certificates.
2011
Alicja in a yellow jacket standing with another woman on the steps of a half-built blue and white house in the snow.
2011
The ice road running straight into the distance between banks of ploughed snow, under a deep blue sky.
A radio interview indoors: a young man in headphones holds a CBC microphone towards a woman in a dark jacket.
How it was originally written

I finished April 10th, 2011, Sunday at 3:50pm. with amazing company including members of the Inuvik Run Club, members of the community, media, and local RCMP. Other runners joined me at the 30 km mark for the final leg. It was truly an Arctic Challenge. I had at least three times where I questioned how I was going to make it. I almost became one with the ice road as I was battling the bitter conditions that I was faced with. The wind was high and it was below -40 when I was nearing Tuktoyaktuk. I got enormous encouragement and warm wishes from passer bys and especially the truckers who I shared the ice road with. On the way back I had two weak moments beween 70-90km into the run and again at the 48km before the finish. Running back was easier because I had constant support from the Inuvik Run Club members (vehicle following me and runners spending a lot of time running with me) and I didn't have to pull the sled. The last 30km I was accompanied with about 20 runners which helped me to locate within myself some extra energy to allow me to push through. At the end, at the entry into the town of Inuvik, it was an amazing entry with a convoy of vehicles, including local police and media, and all the runners, and their families. People were chanting "Alicja, Alicja" and I was chanting back "Inuvik, Inuvik." This run was about helping raise awareness and funds for the Inuvik Homeless Shelter and so far we have approximately $20,000 and counting. Thank you everyone for your incredible support and encouragement along the way. Thank you Inuvik Run Club and the community of Inuvik who embraced me as one of their own. When I leave tomorrow I will take part of Inuvik with me and this experience will remain in my heart. It's been a great journey and experience. Photos

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