FILE PHOTO: People enjoy good weather on the Lake Baikal covered with ice near the Siberian village of Listvyanka, in Irkutsk region, Russia, March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo
LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (Reuters) - The frozen Siberian lake had been hit by a blizzard and blustery winds and there was thick snow underfoot, but these were relatively benign conditions for the extreme marathon runners competing there on Sunday.
Temperatures have in the past plunged as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius at the Ice Marathon over Russia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake where runners converge annually to run a full 26.2-mile marathon or a half marathon.
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