skates and go through there oh i don't want to go long distances so throughout history this is actual race that's not a formal alliance to be used to just be a fun thing to do with your friends that we're talking back to seventeen hundred folks would say it let's try and skate all eleven cities in one day that person was probably crazy because it's a long ways as we'll talk about but it's huge in the last time the race was almost held in tw they estimated that over nine million people would have watched on t v and one and a half to two million people would have lined with two or so what about on the sidelines here and this isn't a province that has about six hundred fifty thousand and so it's about the size it can county cadillac michigan or jackson michigan that's on a twenty mile so imagine flat on your skates and going that far in one day so home to marathon twenty six just twenty six so this is for a half marathon so how long you think you to run a cities depending on when it's run so again it can take anywhere from seven to eleven plus hours so during that time they've had it used to be them both and actually stop and eat we'll have a beer have some hot plus years this is the first mention of it was back in seventeen sixty three so it's an old school race and became popular because of the hundreds a lot of times people would be doing this back then in multiple days they would stop and her very close number hundred forty which is just before the german invasion and interestingly enough they ran it twice during world war two and that was very controversial in greece one the germans had obviously occupied the country and the committee occupying still the northern part was still occupied so they did not skate the race down because people are more worried about feeding their families and people themselves but there's so many stories there are two during the war of the race there was obviously restrictions so those blackout restrictions do and i'm running there's also travel restrictions so there was one man who became kind of a famous hero he was from amsterdam and he wanted to skate this race but obviously he couldn't they went along to just travel anywhere he wanted to this it's going to happen when they get kind of confident and they say it's just cold they need about twelve days of raising temperatures a role if you need about fifteen centimeters of ice to run this race and again is two hundred miles or scuse me a hundred twenty miles two hundred kilometers of ice so it's not like you need one strip of ice or just want river frozen you need a lot of places frozen so there's a whole commission that they get really excited they call  to participate will you have to again in the past only a couple hundred people three good mostly regional raise with skated well over the years came more and more popular and now a lot of people want skated you have to be a member of the a union it's kind of a it's an organisation that you sign up for membership in kind of like the museums like the sierra club or something we have to donate every year in a card you're a member well now there's so many members of that organization when they actually the last couple days they tried to do things like armbands because they don't want more people than that on the ice because the ice can't take it so the policeman i imagine the police presence if you're not a registered member of this race will actually pull you off the ice and say get off the ice you're the committee said you're all disqualified that took the winter eleven hours a year to finish the race in terrible terrible condition less than one percent of people who started the race finished it there was nine thousand nine hundred three hundred people who started it sixty nine and so when  fifty's ok so they're not too old and these ones are from there were again one of our staff members who's sixty his great considers great great grandfather so these are you know hundred ish years old ladies so the technology didn't change for quite a while did all the other headsets but in iraq we have they have like a guy that they give you and shows you where you're supposed to go but on the right there you just see those are actually signposts and this is actually a famous point it basically when the races get there they know they're very close to finishing this race and they can sprint from there so i didn't want to bring up we've talked about us a little bit around holland how we do something  the yeah yeah yeahs a national party commissioners and he said once every fifteen years the government of this country goes from the top of the first one they pretty much dictate what happens in the country for the day when this really happens that you know people get off of work they try to travel one genealogy and also share if you're interested in having to go through some of the web sites the dutch are amazing at putting their records online so if you can find me on stand grandfather whoever it is who came from the netherlands opens up  minutes on the back table as well as over by coffee so encouraging stick around to talk a little while stave off get some coffee stay warm oh tha