To go with the theme I decided to post the photo below. This is me finishing my 4th half marathon in 1982.
Wally Hayward Marathon - 1982
Train well and have fun everyone!
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Throwback Thursday - 1982 Half Marathon
In my Alberton Half Marathon Report I mentioned that it was my 388th half marathon. That caused some reaction, but believe me, here in South Africa that is not all that many. There are many runners with double that number and even more. I will do a post about one of them soon. We have some seriously crazy runners over here.
To go with the theme I decided to post the photo below. This is me finishing my 4th half marathon in 1982.
Train well and have fun everyone!
To go with the theme I decided to post the photo below. This is me finishing my 4th half marathon in 1982.
Train well and have fun everyone!
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18 comments:
How fantastic that you still have pictures of some of your first races!
Nice, that is cool that you have pics of your first race
That's great!
I love that you were running half marathons before I even knew they existed! Awesome track record you have.
What an awesome throw back! And what a great pic!
Are you going to do that safari marathon you mentioned on FB? You would get such good pictures!
Great picture! And to think that in 1982 I was just wasting my life being 9 years old...!
Fun Pic, Johann!! Looks like you were speeding along :)
We have a few marathon maniacs and Half fanatics here too..crazy people live all over the world!
388 half marathons is still impressive even if others have run more. My half count is only in double digits but I'm still proud of that.
oh MY gosh, that's A LOT of halves. wow, wow. impressive!!
What a great throwback!
Love it! Great picture. Great accomplishment.
That's so cool. You were definitely out there running before running was cool :)
388 half marathons. That seems totally crazy to me.
In 82 I thought 5 miles was far. Great post about training for the Comrades Marathon. So very true and looks a lot like my training plan except my weekly runs are longer, I do hill repeats because of the flat area I live in, and weight training. I live close to sea level and need hill repeats and weight training to run ultras in the mountains.
I missed that post about the 388th half - holy moly... relative to other South Africans or not, that's a lot of racing!
I don't care how many any other person has run, that is a whole lot of half-marathons. Do NOT qualify it with comparison to anyone else! You look pretty damn studly in that photo!
...and here I am training for my first in 1982.
Still a great number though :-)
I think it's great that you have all your stats like that! How motivating :) Great picture too!!
I wasn't even born yet! :) You look great! And I love that running is so popular down there.
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