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The older I get the better I was... but after many years of idle burrowing the candle of desire is still burning and I have come to realise that running is as much a part of me as my heart and lungs... In Christmas 2008 I was 82kg and was not running a step..This is my journey , the journey of the wombat...Dogged...determined...persistent...and maybe a little grumpy.. but like the wombat my journey is territorial, its about running and I am going to work to protect it...Come along for the ride and see if I can become the wombat warrior. 2009 was a mixed bag for the wombat's journey.A top ten placing in both the Bridges and the City Surf brought a small sense of achievement but also a degree of frustration.... I think I can do better and better I will in 2010. A better run in the Busso Half iron man in support of TV in his swim and bike ride and that was about the extent of my racing. Lets see what happens in 2010 as "My journey Continues". Now in 2011 the wombat will continue his journey, but not alone the wombat has a youngling who knows how to dig. 2015 and its a new beginning , time goes on and the journey to the 2016 World Masters is under way.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009


Why the wombat...Its Australian... Roy and HG made the wombat a world wide name when they first introduced Fatso the fat arsed wombat at the Olympics in 2000. The battler's prince... The wombat exhibits traits that many distance runners would aspire to....Perserverance...Doggedness...but to me personally its not a day person , it likes its sleeps and it likes its food and if it gets annoyed it gets grumpy and more importantly it is a tenacious little bugger who will fight for its territory... I like that in a wombat... The resilience of the little bugger...I think that if a wombat was a distance runner it would never give up and to beat it you would have to be prepared to die doing it...



Be The wombat....or better still maybe our cry to the Australian athlete who is going into battle should simply be ..."SHOW US YOUR WOMBAT"....Barrel on...
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