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Thursday 13 April 2006
Our continuing mission: to boldly drivel where no running publication has drivelled before.
Following a routine check-up, Ken was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales and underwent triple heart bypass surgery. He was released after a week in intensive care in is now recovering at home. While any hospital procedure is scary, this one seems to have been very successful, and Ken is said to be comfortable.
As reported, probably not exclusively, below, Ceri Donovan and Phil Cook were two (out of a final total of six) of the readers of Running Fitness picked for their 'team in training' London Marathon coverage. Ceri Donovan reports on her experiences so far exclusively for us.
More.
Mal Firouz reports that he forced a team of his fellow crew members to run the length of Panama Canal. They took it as relay, with Mal running 22 of the 50 miles, and completed the course in 6 hours 45 minutes.
The fourth Gwent League of the 2001-2 season was held at Almondsbury, Bristol in conditions which were said to resemble Paschendale. We went into it leading most categories of the competition, and emerged with honours intact. No thanks, however, to several absent members. We name the guilty men below.
Julian Baker "I was in Ireland." (If Julian enjoyed himself to form before the match, he was probably comfortably numb during the slaughter. So he was more awake than the Welsh team.)
Dave Weeden "I was measuring the Castles Relay course." Hasn't he heard of planning?
David J Williams "It was raining."
Ceri Donovan is one of the five readers of Running Fitness whose London Marathon build-up will be covered by the magazine. She went to London on the last Saturday in January to get a free pair of Nike trainers and be photographed. Will they take a more flattering portrait than Rob Evans did? (That's the one accompanying her article.)
When I met Phil Cook on the track on Wednesday [23/1] he wanted to know exactly when Ceri had heard. He'd entered too, and the closing date had been Monday. If they'd announced the winners earlier, he planned to write a stiff letter to the editor.
He was a lot calmer about it on Thursday. "I didn't send the letter, just as well really, as they invited me along at half past four today." Did they pick all the runners from South Wales to make following them easier? No, but they had said that they thought there was a girl from South Wales going as well. "I know", Phil had told them , "she's my ex-girlfriend."
Mick certainly feels that they picked Ceri on the strength of her photograph, class always shows, as he puts it.
We understand Phil got the late place because Nike wanted someone fast (under 2:30). And, as Mick says, class always shows.
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Alan Thomas had an email from the Round Norfolk Relay asking whether we'd like to enter a team next year. I'd certainly like to give it a shot. I know that at the 2001 AGM, after a few pints with Dave Lloyd, I said that I'd try to get a team together for the Green Belt Relay, but -- luckily -- Foot and Mouth saved me from having to do so.
So what about it? Unlike our Castles, Round Norfolk is held in September, is 195 miles, with far more variation between legs (the club section requires 3 juniors, and juniors under 16 are not allowed to run more than 6.2 miles -- so two legs are under this distance), and is run without a break from start to finish.
Mick McGeoch wondered via email: "But who is 'Ladder Legs', and why was John Huggins so pleased to beat him?
"Answers on a postcard ..."
Despite lying low race-wise for several years, and not turning up at the club house until long after some of us have sneaked elsewhere for some potable (now there's a word) beer, Kelvin Sullivan (for it is he) remains a pillar of our club.
John Huggins may have beaten him at the Reebok Cross Challenge, but he beat Richie Bullen once, as he will tell anybody at all sluggish on their feet.
Last updated 13 April 2006
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