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Take enough random photos and you will get a lucky visual joke now and then. This came out the camera exactly as is, (no photoshopping honest) and is a picture of Mary climbing over a stile however looks like a tiny Judith and a giant Mary.
Trail Monsters Running site run by our pal Ian Parlin features a couple of video clips taken last year by myself while we were in Maine running round their local trails. Not great camera work but gives an idea of the surroundings. Dated Thursday, April 24, 2008. Currently posted here
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Here is some fun from the US Runners World site about the most annoying runners you might come across featuring an amusing video of a guy who screams while sprinting.
http://dailyviews.runnersworld.com/2008/03/most-annoying-r.html
http://www.maniacworld.com/most-annoying-runner-ever.html video
Everybody knows that the "gender gap" between men and women runners in the Olympics is narrowing.
Everybody is wrong.That is the subtitle of a fascinating article on gender and geographic differences of athletes, covering topics like doping in running and women in the battlezone, by Steve Sailer that is worth a look. Amusingly written. From 1997
http://www.isteve.com/gendrgap.htm
This appeared in the Evening News Feb08
Run-in with death doesn’t stop Bert
Marathon man in horror accident is heading for LondonAFTER he was crushed between two forklift trucks in a horrific accident, Bert Logan was told he would never run again. The 51-year-old – who had completed 22 marathons and 121 half marathons – suffered a cracked pelvis and trapped nerves in his legs and needed three months of hospital treatment.
But three years later, he is confounding the expert opinions of two doctors and one specialist by training for his eighth London Marathon in April. Mr Logan, of Prestonpans, who has an impressive personal best of two hours and 45 minutes for the 26-mile run, said: “It annoyed me that the doctors were so adamant I would never run again. I was depressed enough without hearing that."
“I hope what I have been able to do will give hope to other people who suffer serious injury. I’m really pleased with the progress I’ve made. When I’m running I don’t feel too bad. I’ve done a couple of half marathons. My times are not quite as quick as they were. My best half marathon is one hour 16 minutes.”
Mr Logan was a warehouse manager at Vogue House Furnishers in Newbridge, where he had worked for 21 years, when he was trapped between the forklift trucks in June 2005. He said: “I thought I was going to die. I was conscious throughout but I could not breathe. I was panicking. My pelvis and down my left leg went numb – I thought, ‘This is big time serious’.” He was treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where there were further complications. He was told his high level of fitness might have helped save his life. Mr Logan said: “I had an abscess in my leg. They drained that, which was quite straightforward, but then that got infected, which burst a main artery. That night I was half an hour from dying. I lost 15 units of blood in four hours – more than there is in the body. They were panicking that they could not pump the blood back in fast enough. When I woke in the high dependency unit, the doctor said if I hadn’t been a marathon runner – if I had been a smoker or a drinker or overweight – I would have had a problem. Two of the nurses said that when they took me away, they didn’t think I’d be coming back.”
Even after leaving hospital in August 2005, Mr Logan was confined to the house for a month before he was able to go on short walks with the aid of crutches. But just months later, to the astonishment of doctors, he was jogging once more. Mr Logan, who received £50,000 in compensation, said: “The doctor said after an injury like that, most people would not be walking, let alone jogging. I still have trapped nerves in my legs and that can be painful at night. I don’t know how long it will take to go away: it could be two years, it could be four years, or it could be never.
“But my love of running has kept me going and London will be my big test.”
By GARETH ROSE
Photo of pb Ian and Mary by Emma Gnarls Barclay
Martin Ryan
July 2007 Martin Ryan of Perth Road Runners tragically died. I ran alongside him in many races (usually behind him) and he will be greatly missed from the running scene. A quiet individual and exceptional runner he was something of an eccentric and could be seen on occasion smoking a pipe after a race!
An appreciation can be found here by fellow club runner and friend Stephen Ferguson. He will be sadly missed.
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Online running photos
There's a website recently launched which covers - photographically - various events. The site seems excellent in its broad coverage of the field (not just the front runners), ease of use and quality of photos. We look forward to future events being documented and wish the folk behind this (free) venture all the best. See if you can find yourself amongst the runners here... www.roadrunpics.com/
If you close your eyes you're bound to drop your egg and spoon
Douglas noticed this pace calculator on the www and passed on the url to me. You punch in your 10k pb or whatever and it tells you how fast you can run from a mile to a marathon. Well, maybe in a virtual reality.....
http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/rununiv/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm
