Ultramarathon or Bust!
Ultramarathon or Bust!
Last Saturday, long time Bondi local, Christopher Zinn, along with 600 others, tackled the 80km ultramarathon from Sydney's Bondi to Manly via the rocky, hilly, spectacular cliff and harbour side path… but why?
“I had never seen myself as any kind of athlete or sportsperson, and apart from jogging and walking, I was content with being middlingly mobile.
I like learning new things, so six years ago, I went to the local evening school for a four-week course on running and gradually became, despite no fixed ambition, a bit of a runner.
Jump forward to last weekend.
In the pre-dawn drizzle at Bondi Pavilion, the spirits of the entrants seemed as high as their average age (42 years old) seemed low compared to me, that is. With only two other entrants aged over 60, I realised perhaps too late this might be a younger person's game.
When turning 65 in February, I proposed a single goal of any substance: to run three moderately paced marathons of 42 km and cap this annus mirabilis (wonderful year in Latin) with an 80km ultramarathon.”
Congratulations Chris on achieving your goal (and belated happy 65th birthday!).
