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With thanks once again to CBC radio and Kirstie Hudson, here’s the link to our post-race interview from London.
Sports writer Cleve Dheensaw of the Victoria Times Colonist put together a great article yesterday, April 23rd, profiling the 2007 Flora London Marathon misadventures of Steve Osaduik and the two bonking rogues, as well as some great commentary from our man Jim Finlayson.
You can find the article online here.
More pics on the Flickr site. Hilarious run today (as you might gather from a couple of the pictures). Story to follow (in a little while).
From the CBC (Announcer/Operator Kirstie Hudson)
Just in case…anyone has missed it…the piece is on again! The Inside Track is being replayed across the country right now…3:30 to 4 pacific on Tuesday…
Good luck Rumon…you must be leaving soon. And congrats Jim on the Sun Run…I don’t know what you were worried about:)
Have a great day…K
[Reminder: That audio file can be found here - RC.]
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Mark and Nick of Frontrunners Westshore (click the link for directions to the shop) would like to welcome all running and walking clubs and clinics to the second annual ‘Club/Clinic Night’. The evening will get underway at 6pm and along with the great sales on product there will also be beverages and appetizers served as well as draw prizes throughout the evening. Come join us in kicking off the summer running season with some great deals and a fun-filled evening! We are also lucky enough to have Canadian Marathon Champion, Jim Finlayson, and his Three Roads to London partner, Rumon Carter, presenting on preparing for a marathon and how to use your running as a means of helping others.
Date: April 18th, 2007
Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm
(Thanks, Mark & Nick, for having us. Michael, wish you were here to back us up!)
Just off the phone with our man Jim (The Flying Finn) Finlayson. Though all fitness indications going in were for a 31:15-31:30 today, Jim, racer that he is, squeezed a few more seconds out of his pipes for a 31:02 at today’s Sun Run 10k. No word yet where that places him. The race was won in 29:20-something.
Todd “El Perrito Rápido” Howard had a big PB to finish just behind Jim. Adam Campbell had a great run for a 32-low. Bruce Deacon was just under 31-minutes.
Though Jim was pleased with the run, he couldn’t help reflecting that “it would have been a good year to be fit” (times at the front of the race weren’t particularly quick). But let’s put it in perspective: after 6 weeks of nearly zero running, Jim went into Sun Run off just over 2 weeks of training. Most of his competitors were peaking for this event.
Jim’s just getting started.
It’s spreading. Our CBC Radio piece, first played in Victoria, then picked up by the Vancouver station, is now going national (and therefore global on the Sirius Radio network). Daunting. One has to wonder how many people by this evening will have heard Michael describe the marathon as a dragged-out paper cut and all of us singing “Dirty Old Town.” Shocking.
The piece airs this afternoon on The Inside Track at 1:30 p.m. EST (2:00 NT, 4:30 PT) on CBC Radio One. If you’re in Canada and want to stream the show from your computer, you can do so from here. If you’re international and/or have Sirius satellite radio, CBC is on channel 137.
And, though we’ve taken the piss out of ourselves for the singing and some of the comments we made, all three of us have been pinching ourselves that our little story made it onto the radio station we all grew up with, playing in the kitchen whenever we ran in to steal a cookie. So thank you so much to reporter Kirstie Hudson and the CBC for our Andy Warhol moment. More important, for the chance to spread the word about chasing dreams and trying to make a difference.
I’ll ditto Michael’s comments re: the weather, but over here in Vancouver on business I’m less inclined to call it “perfect.” (Who flies to Vancouver and leaves their umbrella in the car?!)
Safe out of the rain for the moment, I’ll let Vancouver readers know that if they missed the CBC piece earlier this week, it’s actually been picked up by CBC Vancouver and will be re-airing this afternoon on 690 AM between 4:30 and 5:00 PST (you can actually pick up the AM signal from Victoria as well). Notwithstanding our singing (dis)abilities, apparently feedback on the piece has been very good. Other than downloading from the link in a previous post, you’ll have one more chance to hear the piece on-air when it plays on the national Inside Track program this Sunday at 4:30. Further details in a subsequent post.
