Frigid start.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Frigid Start: Cold weather could not dissuade 1,670 runners--along with some walkers, dogs and family members--from participating in Minnesota Life's Frozen 5K and shortened Half Marathon A half marathon is a road running event of 21,097.5 meters, or 13 7/64 miles, about 13.1 miles. It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. on Jan. 31 in downtown St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery . At race time, the temperature was 4 with a wind chill wind chill, the cooling effect of wind and temperature combined, expressed in terms of the effect produced by a lower, windless temperature, also called wind chill factor, wind chill temperature, wind chill equivalent temperature, wind chill index, wind chill of 7 below zero. Due to this year's unusual cold, Minnesota Life The Minnesota Life Insurance Company was founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1880 as a mutual insurance company. It was originally organized as a mutual because a general distrust of stockholder-owned businesses prevailed at that time and there was a shortage of people willing to buy reduced the normal half-marathon distance to 6.6 miles. This was the ninth year the company has sponsored the race, which is part of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival. |
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