tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621172731232796768.post5142762489285003965..comments2023-10-02T02:23:43.722+10:00Comments on running masters: BRRC 5Mile Championship 1st 27;53Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14587034399590263977noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1621172731232796768.post-62111545123349232902017-02-20T09:47:40.656+10:002017-02-20T09:47:40.656+10:00When you get a message from Lusty Lucy to be at Sa...When you get a message from Lusty Lucy to be at Sandgate pier for the weekly park run you know it can mean only one thing . The Garmin Lama has something special in store . What could it be ? My first thoughts were of an attempt on the 100% age grading barrier . The GL sits atop the age graded league there like some latter day colossus with running luminaries and legends such as Mike Trees , John Shaw and Ron Peters well down the pecking order . I was surprised then to see the Scotsman and crowd favourite pushing Mike Trees in his wheel chair to the starting line . We all know the tragic story of Tree's debilating injury and struggle to even walk again so it was a poignant moment as we witnessed the seeming past of our sport being pushed by the future and heir apparent . Then a remarkable thing happened and those present there who witnessed it will have the memory of it etched in their minds forever more . The GL said to Mike , " mate get up out of that wheelchair and walk to the start ." The crowd was spellbound . Again the GL admonished him , " walk Mike!" With faltering movement the shattered limbs began twitching . Jerking . Nerves spasmodically firing . Uncontrollably propelled as if by an invisible force. Next he was standing . Unbelievable ! The GL took him by the hand and these two ageless warriors edged their way with faltering but ever growing surety towards the starting line . I for one am not ashamed to say I had tears streaming down my cheeks . This was mateship in its supreme embodiment . The needs of the other outweighing the needs of the one . This was the Anzac tradition at its noblest and as only a Scotsman and Englishman on a sunburnt beach on an antipodean shore could embody and personify . No wonder the GL has been embraced in his adopted homeland as a long lost son . The results will show that Mike Trees finished his 99th park run and the GL was there to support him as he collapsed emotionally and physically drained across the finish line . On the 25th of this month Trees will reach his century of park runs . I for one will be there . Sandgate pier . 7 am . There are some things in life you can't miss out on . I was there the day I was born . I was there the day I got married . I was there the day my first son was born , and by god I'll be there when Mike Trees does his 100th park run and I hope you are as well . Walls of Oaknoreply@blogger.com