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Big city marathons’ loss of innocence
Premier rugby draw The Wadsco Marlborough premier rugby draw is slightly different this week. Central are playing Awatere on Friday night at 7.30pm (Lansdowne Park 1), due to a private function at the Central clubrooms on Saturday. Other games will proceed as normal on Saturday (2.35pm kickoffs): Moutere v Renwick (Awarua Park 1); Harlequins v Waitohi (Lansdowne Park 1).
It was a pumped up Ron Adams who I interviewed last week just before he flew out of Blenheim to compete in this weekend's London marathon. I liked Ron's approach to what was clearly an adventure in his eyes – “I'm not going there to try and do a PB,” he said. “I'm going there to soak up the atmosphere.” That's what big city marathons are all about. To enjoy being among hundreds of others, all of varying ages, male and female, some emaciated elite runners, others carrying a few extra pounds as they say. And on the start line it doesn't matter a darn if you are a corporate big wig, or a dustman, or that you have five million bucks in the bank or five.
Taylor dropped Ross Taylor had been the only New Zealander logging regular game-time in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition, until yesterday. Taylor was dropped from the Pune team for their match against Hyderabad after a poor batting attempt.
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And to the thousands who pack the streets to cheer the runners, everyone pounding the pavement is a hero. There is something special too having thousands of people traversing through streets that for 364 days of the year are bumper to bumper with traffic. People still run cities, not cars. But what happened in Boston this week with some nutter or nutters letting off bombs killing three people and injuring nearly 200 others, marks an end of innocence for big city marathons. The inevitable consequence is that security will have to be tightened at these events. Some people who had set their sights on running Boston, New York or London won't bother.
Chris Tobin chris@blenheimsun.co.nz However, having been in email contact with Ron since our interview, he is not allowing what happened to Boston to be a dampener on his running adventure this weekend. That's the stuff Ron. I'm sure in the future there will be a lot more like you travelling from New Zealand to New York, London and to Boston to run their marathons....and to soak up the atmosphere.
Robbie a late bloomer
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For the start of that marathon, you're just like everyone else. I remember when big city marathons first took off and I had the pleasure of competing in the New York marathon when it was still considered 'out there' to be running over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. Once the New York marathon took off, other big cities followed so that now every major city in the world seems to have its own marathon. Why this is so, I feel, is because marathons help humanise, albeit for a short period of time, what can be big city concrete jungles. In a marathon also barriers between people seem to dissolve – this is especially the case among the slower runners.
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By Chris Tobin After giving away running for many years Seddon farmer Robbie Barnes is now making up for lost time. Last weekend he won his 50 to 54 age group at the New Zealand mountain running championships at Wanuiomata near Wellington and in so doing, was something of a dark horse. “It's my first national title and the first time I've had a go,” he said. “The (Marlborough) harriers encouraged me to go.” A Wellington runner had been fancied to take the title and it came as a surprise when the Marlborough man upstaged him. “I beat him by a couple of minutes; he got a bit of a shock.” What made the day extra special was that Barnes' daughter, Jess,
18 who is studying for a sports degree at Massey University, won also – taking the junior women's NZ title. “She wasn't very confident going into the race either; the other girl is very good on the track.” Barnes only resumed running a couple of years ago after Jess was getting keen on multisport. “We saw Marlborough Harriers advertise and we popped along and started as novices.” Barnes said he had run as a “young fella” without any success and had been 25 years out of the sport. During the intervening years he relied on staying fit through work on his Marathon Downs farm and hunting. He has run half marathons with a best time of 1hr 18min and now he is aiming at his first marathon, probably in
That winning feeling: Robbie Barnes seen here competing in the Woodbourne Half Marathon now has his eyes set on his first marathon.
Wellington during June. “I'm trying not to take it too seriously,” he said. His farm name of Marathon Downs is not related to the recent interest in marathon running either. The farm has been in the family
for many years and has been known by that name from the beginning. Barnes has a goal for that first marathon in Wellington too. “I want to do three hours or better.”
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