A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
Recently clicked on MP3s - 7th June 2005 The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
Jens Lekman - When i said i wanted to be your dog
The Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
Teenage Fanclub - Man Made
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Eels - Blinking Lights
Saturday, May 21, 2005
And now here's Alan with the sport.
First up, Athletics. The big race of the past week (er, make that month, due a slight delay in getting this post finished off) was the Great Ocean Road Half Marathon, which completely overshadowed it's full marathon big brother, due to the thrilling tussle between the two Kenyan favourites for the race, and the plucky qualifier, Mark Edward. Yes! For the first thirty seconds of the race, the young English lad could actually SEE! the well fancied Africans!! Sadly they then disappeared around a headland, and he couldn't keep up with their pace any longer, eventually trailing in about an hour after them, to wild applause from the locals of Apollo Bay, which he classily acknowledged by collapsing onto the nearest bit of grass to the finish line.
Amazingly i managed to keep up this peak form two weeks later, when I competed in the 'Run to the G', a 10k race through the streets of Melbourne, starting and finishing outside the MCG. I am now officially the 1102nd best 10k runner in town, yeah!
Full photo coverage of the events follows:
Early on in the GOR Half Marathon. For some reason i'm smiling as I run over the top of one of the big climbs, probably meaning i wasn't trying hard enough.
Somehow i still managed to smile at the finish, despite the severe hair loss that ocurred during the race. Looking back it may have been something to do with sighting the people handing out free bottles of Emma & Tom's Life juice just over the finish line
Sadly the photo coverage of the 'Run to the G' wasn't quite of such high quality (the 4500 odd other people running got in the way a little, so there's only a picture of me grimacing in the distance, and one of my elbow looking relieved to have just finished). Also, the people who took the pics have made it irritatingly hard to pinch them from their website, so i'll spare you the horror of those ones, but here's a link if you're into exhausted looking elbows (Look for the album starting at 0.51.21.63, and the pics run_to_the_G_2468.jpg, run_to_the_G_2469.jpg and run_to_the_G_2471.jpg)
Download a DB of the GOR Half marathon results here Read and weep over the Run to the G results here (when The Age pulls it's finger out and puts them up)
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