More than 4,000 athletes from all over are registered for this year's race. Many of those signed up two years ago to compete, but mother nature had other plans.
In past winters, Scott Meier cut holes through a frozen pond to show his students the phytoplankton and zooplankton living under the ice. Meier, an Evanston Township High School biology teacher, said the exercise at the ETHS Nature Center showed students parts of the ecosystem they didn’t previously expect. “The water is actually still alive,”.