AIMS races – this weekend – Coming up . . . the Paavo Nurmi Marathon – the Rovaniemi Marathon – Ergo White Nights Marathonand the Standard Chartered KL Marathon

There are two Marathons to be held in Finland on 29 June: the Paavo Nurmi Marathon in Turku, and the Rovaniemi Marathon at 66degN, which involves a double crossing of the Arctic Circle.

Only a little to the east the next day, 30 June, the International Ergo White Nights Marathon takes place in St Petersburg (RUS). The Standard Chartered KL Marathon, also scheduled for that day, has been postponed until 29 September due to a thick "haze", which engulfed the Malaysian capital on Monday 24 June. [According to The Guardian website: "Smoke had travelled from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where farmers are illegally burning forest. Schools in Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring Selangor and Malacca are closed."]

The Northwest Passage Marathon at Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge will be run on 3 July on Somerset Island in the new Canadian Province of Nunavut. It is North America’s most northerly marathon, held under the 24-hour Arctic sun and against the backdrop of the fabled Northwest Passage.

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