Showing posts with label Interesting stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interesting stories. Show all posts

15 October 2009

Best leave your ipod at home next time

If you rate yourself a good chance of scoring a top result in your local marathon, you best leave your ipod at home it seems.

In the US a female runner named Jennifer Goebel, who had been awarded the title of first female in the Milwaukee marathon last week, was later disqualified apparently because she was found to have been listening to her Ipod for just a few miles late in the race.

The story gets even more intriguing however because Goebel was initially promoted to first place after the actual first place getter was also disqualified for accepting a water bottle from a supporter outside of an official drinks station.

Sounds like the officials were certainly kept busy in that race.

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28 January 2009

Man nears unusual mountain feat

This is an interesting story about a 60 year old Queenstown primary school teacher who has personal goal to run the Ben Lomond track in Queenstown once for every 365 days of the year. So far he has run the track, which usually takes hikers 7 hours, 317 times.

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