Cool. That looks like a fun race.
Old-timers will tell you that is a bucket list race that many of the XC greats have done.
There are links to some good pictures from this race in the following thread:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=686602&thread=686585
Very cool-
Here's the pic of Frank Shorter running through the windmill-
http://thegreatdistancerunners.de/CM%20FosterShorter.jpg
Shorter won once and Lynn Jennings won twice. It's really cool that Simpson is running this.
This is the sort of running I'd like to see in a non-championship year where people do cool races that they might not normally do.
Will this be shown online anywhere? Anyone know?
Always loved that picture of Shorter. Other old timers will recognize who is leading through the doorway.
867-5309 wrote:
Very cool-
Here's the pic of Frank Shorter running through the windmill-
http://thegreatdistancerunners.de/CM%20FosterShorter.jpgShorter won once and Lynn Jennings won twice. It's really cool that Simpson is running this.
This is the sort of running I'd like to see in a non-championship year where people do cool races that they might not normally do.
The guy's not that famous: he wasn't even the best runner from Gateshead. ;)
Slow Old Guy wrote:
Always loved that picture of Shorter. Other old timers will recognize who is leading through the doorway. [quote]867-5309 wrote:
Hoser, eh wrote:
The guy's not that famous: he wasn't even the best runner from Gateshead.
;)
Slow Old Guy wrote:Always loved that picture of Shorter. Other old timers will recognize who is leading through the doorway. [quote]867-5309 wrote:
Olympic bronze ain't chicken feed. Like Shorter, Brendan Foster was another one of the greats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_FosterIt's a classic race. Lots of big names have run it in the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_MuliniBilly Mills won this race in 1965!
This is an excellence choice of events for this time of the year, I'm not sure why more elites don't make this type of choice. This should be real interesting since I am not sold on Jenny's long distance running chops.
Why don't more elites run this? Jenny is the best!
Prozac Nation wrote:
Why don't more elites run this? Jenny is the best!
I assume you mean the U.S.; she is perhaps top-3 in the world.
Seb Coe ran it once and thought Mulini meant miles
http://www.aipsmedia.com/index.php?page=news&cod=7679&tp=n&allcomm=1
some 70s guy wrote:
Old-timers will tell you that is a bucket list race that many of the XC greats have done.
Is this also a mass-participation race? Can I run it?
Foster's book has a great pic of Shorter leading him along the course with mention of the nearby river being the smelliest he'd ever run along.
Apparently it was like liquid a*s.
Good for Jenny. I'd watch if it's streaming anywhere.
I like how Coe beat a future 10000m World Champion over five miles.
Not bad for a guy that did 30 miles a week.
SMJO wrote:
Not bad for a guy that did 30 miles a week.
Seb Coe did 70-100...
Mr. Obvious wrote:Is this also a mass-participation race? Can I run it?
It looks like they have an elite invitational and then separate races in age and sex categories. I don't trust my Italian enough to say if those are completely open races or there are qualifications. But you have to register by tomorrow.
http://www.5mulini.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110&Itemid=153http://www.5mulini.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=124http://www.5mulini.org/images/pdf/scheda%20TDS%20-%20Cinque%20Mulini%202014%201ok.pdfI wonder if there's someone who organizes running tourism like the European packages they sell for the New York marathon?