Name: Scott
Age: Forty something - no need to update this for a while though :-)
Where: Concord NSW
Job: I work with people with disabilities
The picture here is of me at the finish of the 2005 Six Foot Track. I absolutely love the Six Foot Track Marathon and the next one is in:
In high school I was a member of the running club. After leaving school I often joined a group that did a lap of the Domain from Garden Island Dockyard and during this time I entered and ran in a number of fun runs, typically 10km's, with the mandatory City to Surf (14km) run for good measure. I did it in 62m (inclusive of the 6 minutes it took me to get across the start line). Also, when I was in the Army Reserve in the 1980's, we regularly did 5km runs as part of our physical training. I enjoyed these runs but physiologically I am more suited to sprinting and regularly did sprint training just for the pleasure. Consequently, I was only an occasional runner from 1987 to 1997 prefering to concentrate on my martial arts and bushwalking.
I've been continuously involved in sport since I was 10 and from my late teens and early tweens, I had planned that distance running was something that I would do when I was a bit older. Guys like Ron Grant & Tony Rafferty running across the Simpson Desert and Cliff Young who I saw run past my family home one year were an inspiration. The seed was planted and I duly recommenced running in 1997 at the ripe old age of 33 (yeah, yeah, so I did start as a young bloke after all) :-).
Given the state of my calf muscles (cows?) after the '99 Sydney Half, I hung up the runners till the week before Christmas 2004 when I scared myself witless by commiting to the 2005 Six Foot Track Marathon (see '97 race report below). With only 8 weeks of real preparation I got across the line in 6hrs 21mins. You've already seen the shot of me at the finish, here is a pic of me at the Start (no 732).
These days my idea of a good run is something in the order of 6km - 30km's with some good scenery thrown in. I like to toddle along between 5 & 6 minutes per km pace. If I have a mate or two to run with, all well and good, but I'm not one for running in a big group and typically I stay away from events. Though if something on the calander takes my fancy I sometimes emerge. I must confess that the dark side beckons and I am completely enamoured by the thought of Fatass and Ultra's (heaven help me).
My preference is to run on bush tracks, my favourites being the Grand Canyon (Blackheath), Narrow Neck (Katoomba) and Quarry Road (Hornsby). The reality though is most of my runs are close to home and I try to keep them scenic or at least as traffic free as possible. Most of my runs are either a subset of this 30km loop or a slight variation through Bicentennial Park.
My Favourite Running Quote: You will pass out before you die, so keep running! - Percy Cerutty
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It's a funny thing that the runs that go wrong are the ones you end up remembering most fondly. Here are some race reports from some real shockers and also of the '97 Six Foot Track which I consider my proudest running achievement:
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Some PB's (from the early 80's)
100m: 11.2s
400m: 52.6
5km: 18.01
10km: 40.03
Whilst I think I am fitter now than in the early 80's, I do have a chronic problem with my calf muscles. Never-the-less here are some PB's from some races I did in the late 90's that I am kinda proud of:
10km: 48.39
6 Foot Track: 5.52
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