Who would want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro when you could run a MARATHON around it!?

Absolutely not related to work in any way, but...there is a marathon in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Moshi, Tanzania in March. I happened to come across it in some Runner's World email or one of those. Although the race would probably be over before I got to mile 4, that would be a pretty awesome place to run. It would mean running a lot of laps in my backyard...