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Re: famour runners names under avatar?

Postby ultraslacker » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:23 pm

I wasn't referring to speed so much as the whole awe-inspiring package. he's by far my favourite ultra elite!
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Re: famour runners names under avatar?

Postby Spirit Unleashed » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:23 pm

140.6 wrote: ...Julie Leach won in 1982 but you might be thinking of Julie Moss who was second. It was her struggle in the final few yards that when featured on Wide World of Sport really brought the Kona race to the US's attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWsQMabczM

Not Moss. How about Paula Newby Frasier? Did she win the next year?
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Re: famour runners names under avatar?

Postby Spirit Unleashed » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:23 pm

ultraslacker wrote:I wasn't referring to speed so much as the whole awe-inspiring package. he's by far my favourite ultra elite!

Nice abdomin.
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Postby दिवंगत » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:40 pm

ultra monk wrote:
140.6 wrote: ...Julie Leach won in 1982 but you might be thinking of Julie Moss who was second. It was her struggle in the final few yards that when featured on Wide World of Sport really brought the Kona race to the US's attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWsQMabczM

Not Moss. How about Paula Newby Frasier? Did she win the next year?

PNF won in '86, and seven more times after that.

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Re: famour runners names under avatar?

Postby Andy Aitch » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:03 pm

ultraslacker wrote:he's by far my favourite ultra elite!

Me too, I'm not too proud to admit to a man-crush when I see one. My wife does find it odd when she sees me "looking at pictures of that skinny hippie again", but we all have our little vices, no?

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Postby ultraslacker » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:12 pm

lol!
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Postby ultraslacker » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:13 pm

have you ever seen him in action?

poetry in motion.
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Re: famour runners names under avatar?

Postby Spirit Unleashed » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:12 pm

A woman I used to admire was Grete Waitz.
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