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| gunnison colorado (4 weeks, 7 june - 11 july) tour 2002 is based around my participation in the commonwealth games marathon in manchester, england. starting with a half marathon in christchurch, new zealand, which completed some solid training domestically, i then travelled to the states for a spot of altitude work. en route i ran the steamboat 4 mile road race in a town near chicago called peoria - famous for being the home of caterpillar the next few weeks have been spent in gunnison, colorado. as the world cup soccer rolls on and tiger woods wins his 8th major i am living in a town at 7708 feet and sucking in the thin air. this is a college town where a lot of kiwi runners have done some time at school - and their legendary feats are still retold by the locals the peachtree road race is americas biggest 10k (55,000 participants) and is run on the 4th of july holiday. needless to say the national anthem was played with the biggest american flag i have ever seen, helicopters buzzed about and the pace, like the weather was hot. ahtletes were put up in the ritz in fine southern style and generally this is a great race and made a good side trip to the training in gunnison |
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| date 2 june 2002 8 june 2002 4 july 2002 14 july 2002 28 july 2002 11 aug 2002 18 aug 2002 25 aug 2002 1 sept 2002 15 sept 2002 21 sept 2002 29 sept 2002 5 oct 2002 13 oct 2002 27 oct 2002 3 nov 2002 |
| race sbs christchurch half marathon steamboat road race peachtree road race wolverhampton college 10k commonwealth games sierre zinal matterhornlauf (berglauf gp) challenge stellina (wmra gp) hochgrat-berglauf world trophy (wmra gp) gislaf hochfelln berglauf gp final smarna gora wmra gp final munich marathon kl towerthon bmw auckland half marathon |
| time 1hr 02m 37s 18m 14s 28m 56s 27m 07s 2hr 14m 20s 1hr 07m 1hr 02m 27s 1hr 15m 09s 29min 37s 56min 31s 28min 45s 40min 34s 38min 14s 2hr 23m 10m 49s 1hr 08m |
| result 1st 4th 16th 1st 6th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd |
| location christchurch, new zealand peoria, illinois, usa atlanta, georgia, usa wolverhampton, england manchester, england zinal, switzerland zermatt, switzerland susa, italy oberstaufen, germany innsbruck, austria linz, austria bergen, germany ljubljana, slovenia munich, germany kuala lumpur, malaysia auckland, new zealand |
| distance half marathon (21.1km) 4 miles (6.4 km) 10km 10km marathon (42.2km) 30km (shortened to 12km), 1600m climb 14.35km, 950m climb 15km, 1500m climb 6.05km, 850m climb 11.7km, 1331m climb 7.1km, 650m climb 8.9km, 1001m climb 9km 42.2km 650m + 2000 steps 21.1km |
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| UK (4 weeks, 12 july - 8 august) here for the commonwealth games. i arrived in stockport, manchester with the first item on the agenda being a brewery tour - such is the importance of the brown stuff in the uk. a good games with plenty of good events, highlights include: the track and field programme, paula radcliffs 5000m, and the enthusiastic crowd. road and track cycling. a solid run from me with a 6th placing in the marathon, tantalisingly close to more. lowlights include: losing half my pictures on my new digital camera - hence the lack of english pictures here |
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| rr: race record nzr: new zealand record |
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| europe (7 weeks, 8 august - 13 october) the first race on the mountain tour for me is the sierre zinal race in the valais canton of switzerland. bad weather forced a shortening of the course from its usual 31km to 12km, the first time this has occurred in the races 29 year history. 20cm of snow fell on the course the day before with temperatures well below zero degrees. the race now went from sierre to chandolin which was a climb of 1600m making it a steep race. this suited me just fine as 2 weeks after the marathon i wasn't too sure how i had recovered. i managed a win here but it was bitterly cold near the finish and as it was 2 people died after completing the race from heart attacks - who said running was good for your healt! staying in switzerland i then raced the matterhornlauf in Zermatt. a flatter course but still tough with the altitude finish of 2600m. here i managed a new record on a beautiful clam day with great views of the breithorn, monte rosa and of course the matterhorn itself. one week later and leaving switzerland for the north of italy the challenge stellina grand prix race in susa was next. the course follows the liine of a battle from world war one and as such holds special significance for the local people. for the first time in susa wet weather meant the course would be slippery, so i let the tupu�s have a blat (these are specialist nike studded mountain running shoes i had some input into the design of). tough going on the smooth, wet rocks but great in the mud further up. it was a nice surprise to reach the finish and find i had run a new record - the cooler conditions helped. another place and another race the following week in oberstaufen after catching up with friends from bergen. this one a steep 6km and good short sharp effort 2 weeks out from worlds. a cannon at the start scared the living daylights out of us with no prior warning. one second we are standing on the startline chatting and the next we're off up the hill at pace. the course record dated back to 1983 but conditions were again cool with some light rain and the track had been improved for this year making it a quick course. i managed the record by over 3mins to run under 30mins so was a good confidence booster and the organisers couldn't believe it when i emerged out of the mist at the summit! on to the world trophey and a good team of kiwis in innsbruck, perfect weather - except for the 3 hours covering the race! a tough race course, but at the end of just under an hour i came out of the mist on top. |
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| world trophey, innsbruck, austria |
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| images from bergen. 1, the berglauf gp final. on the podium - includes marco degaspari, jahn blaha, martin cox, emmanuel manzi, paul crake, antonio molinari, marcus kroll. 2, demedenko and i overlooking the chiemsee from the hochfelln. 3, snow with 1.5k to go. |
| mr bolaffi's quad bike, torino, itlay |
| swiss ferrari's, sion |
| matterhornlauf ziel, zermatt, switzer;land |
| martin cox and billy burns each side both from england |
| barrage tseuzier, vallais, switzerland |
| farm houses, zermatt, switzerland |
| castle, sion, switzerland |
| world trophy, innsbruck, austria |
| bergen 2002 |
| snow at zinal, switzerland |
| the last mountain race, wmra gp final at the smarna gora in slovenia |
| following the world mountain trophey, races in linz (austria), bergen (germany), and ljubjana (slovenia) finished off the season. The slovene race was a tough one with its steep technical uphill and short flat out rocky downhill section with a grunty climb to finish. staying on in europe due to kl stair race changing their date i filled in the time by running the munich city marathon and with the weather packing up it was time to head home. |
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| crested butte, colorado. more hippies per square metre than u can shake a stick at and a nice ski town in the backgorund (left) is mount crested butte with nicole jefferson and myself in front to the right is downtown crested butte with cruiser bike - way cool |
| The distance team from left to right: Me, 'Shrubbo' Craig Barrett, Craig Kirkwood, John Henwood, Sir Murry Halberg, Tony Sargison, Mike Aish, Phil Costley |
| Sarah Ulmer on her way to Pursuit Gold |
