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Jan 2019
7:33pm, 14 Jan 2019
4,873 posts
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Northern Exile
Yes. Well, joint-first with Eugeni ... there can't be much between them.
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Jan 2019
7:47pm, 14 Jan 2019
28,546 posts
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Derby Tup
Go Jasmine
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Jan 2019
8:45pm, 14 Jan 2019
11,548 posts
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Rosehip
Go Jasmine 
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Jan 2019
8:49pm, 14 Jan 2019
18,074 posts
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flanker
Jayson C seems to have dropped
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Jan 2019
8:55pm, 14 Jan 2019
1,175 posts
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flyingfinn
He dropped out about 4pm Flanker. Got in a car at the top of the Cam Road. I don't know why.
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Jan 2019
9:04pm, 14 Jan 2019
19,473 posts
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Lizzie W
Mr Marlow is mid pack but only had 1hr 23 rest.
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Jan 2019
9:09pm, 14 Jan 2019
28,547 posts
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Derby Tup
Isn’t there a story of an Australian doing a multi-day event where historically the runners had gone to sleep at night. He was a cattle farmer or similar and ran none-stop for days and won by many hours. I well remember when I did the LDWA 100 overhearing two lads discussing an event in Germany and one saying ‘yes it was great - 72 hours of continuous walking’
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Jan 2019
1:34am, 15 Jan 2019
18,075 posts
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flanker
DT - I've come across that Aussie story at some point. Didn't he go on to become quite famous?
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Jan 2019
3:18am, 15 Jan 2019
28,550 posts
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Derby Tup
Famous enough for a couple of fat lad / geeks to repeat years later. I think the gist of the story is don’t assume the way it’s always been done is the correct or only way to do it
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Jan 2019
3:34am, 15 Jan 2019
2,115 posts
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struthious
That's right flanker - Cliffie Young. Potato farmer with a small dairy herd in the Otways. The only flat ground in most of the Otways is a platform for the dairy. Cliffie was famous for training in the gum boots (you call em Wellingtons) that he wore when getting the cows in. He entered the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne. He famously set his alarm wrong on the first night - awoke 4 hours earlier than anybody else and continued running. He took the lead and no other runner got close after that. To 'run like Cliffie' is a popular phrase down here in the SE corner of the continong. But one can't run like Cliffie in $200 trainers. Got to be flip flops or dunlop volleys. Wellingtons is still thought to be a bit extreme.
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