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Melbournc ot Fodcrotion Squorc 27 Februorg 2005 Congratulations to the 6100 runners sk & tok who participated in this year's 27th annual Asics Melbourne Marathon. Sydneg ot Sgdncy Olgmpic Pork 26 tune 2OO5 The number of participants was the largest since the 5k & tok record-brreaking year of 1982. Melbourne's A very special thanks to our large team of volunteers. More than 850 people, in their bright orange Asics Ilt Fedorotion Squoro 27 Februory 2005 Melbourne Marathon shirts, were on course contributing their enthusiasm, skill and time to ensure the enjoyment The Good and safety of the participants.

Mclbournc 25 Morch 2005 4k & 8k The true success of the Asics Melbourne Marathon since 2000 is reflected in the community support that (1OO% of all proceeds to the Royal Children's Hospital Cood Friday Appeal) the event receives now. Whilst the number of participants has increased by more than 100% since 2000, the number of Tho Offiriol our volunteers has increased by more than 4OO%. Morothon We see the Asics Melbourne Marathon as a major Holf on thc Pork 7 0ugust 2005 Victorian community event which donates substantial 5H, IOI{, I5H & 2I.IH funding back to grass roots athletic clubs, and service clubs such as Lions, schools, scouting groups and charities. 0sics Our thanks and congratulations go to our naming rights sponsor Asics Oceania. The continued support from Asics Fronkston to Melbourne 9 October 2005 is essential. Thanks goes to our support partners - City of 42.211, 2l.ll1, 10.9K ond Toom Rcloy Melbourne, Parks Victoria, Radio 3AW, Carlton Non Alcoholic Beverages (Torquay), Seiko, Robert Lane Honda,

Carlton Crest Hotel, Trainstation Health CIub, Mix 101 .1 , La Manna Fruits, BMW Motorcycles Australia, Park Victoria, Sunday Herald Sun, RSEA, Murphy Car & Truck Rentals, CBD Cycles, PB Sports Nutrition and Athletics Victoria.

The event raised much needed funds and awareness for our prime charity the Royal Children's Hospital Cood Friday Appeal as well as our associated charities including Camp Quality, Mental lllness Fellowship, Sacred Heart Mission St Kilda and Eye Research Australia. We congratulate Magnus Michelsson on becoming only the second Australian to win consecutive Asics Melbourne Marathons. On an unseasonally hot Melbourne day Magnus defied all comers to win again in 2:26:51. Our congratulations to first female, Billinda Shipp from New South Wales, who ran 2:54:01. Both Magnus and Billinda win a trip to a New York marathon courtesy of Asics Oceania.

Our sincere thanks and congratulations to the Event Wizard management team of Robyn Pretty, Val Woolston, Simon Cullery and Carrie Fletcher. When you are deciding which marathon to run in 2005 - how can you go past the event with the friendliest volun- teers, the thousand's of local residents who line the streets all the way from Frankston to Melbourne and the one which is staged in the home of the 2006 Commonwealth Chcck out your photos ot uJuJlu.supcrsportimogos.Gorn Cames - Asics Melbourne Marathon. Suoetsoorl l-- inbsq; / *.*,*"** We will see you and your family and friends at the 28th a,I-.uI@[email protected] Asics Melbourne Marathon, as always, on the second Sunday in October. Sponsor's lUlessoge

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11 October, 2004

To Everyone lnvolved with the Asics Melbourne Marathon:

To all the competitors, my admiration and congratulations to each and every one of you. lt could not have been easy trying to achieve your personal best on a day as unusually warm as our race day this year. ln particular, I would like to commend Asics ambassador Magnus Michelsson on not only his back to back win in the men's marathon but also the fact that he did so after competing in the World Half Marathon Championships only a week earlierl Once again, a big thank you goes to , former marathon world record holder and now Patron of the Asics Melbourne Marathon, for your invaluable support of this event and the Asics brand. Your involvement adds prestige to the Asics Melbourne Marathon that no other race can emulate. My thanks also go out to 53.6% of the first 1,000 finishers who chose to wear our shoes in the marathon this year. You can be rest assured that we will continue to build shoes that will maximise your performance every time you put them on.

Last but not least, I would like to thank Event Wizard for putting on another successful race day. Let's take the race to the next level in 2005. I look forward to seeing all of you again next year for the biggest ever (l hope, anyway) Asics Melbourne Marathon!

Yours Sincerely,

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The Marathon is Having already completed 9 Melbourne Marathons, I without doubt one of thought I was well prepared for anything on this day, I was the greatest challenges so certain my mind would get me through any problems * x presented to a runner. that arose during the run. I can honestly say it was the Hours of training toughest of all my marathons, and at the 33km mark I had required to even get serious thoughts about pulling out. Mind you, I had family to the starting line in and friends waiting at the finish line to cheer me over the a condition ready line in my 1Oth Melbourne Marathon, so pulling out was not to compete in the an option. Every year my cousin Stuart gives me a bottle of gruelling run. lift from the BP at the 36km mark, boy was I glad to see him. lt was just the sugar hit I needed and I shuffled my way This year was my along for the next few kms. 1Oth consecutive : Melbourne Marathon, At 40km, I was exhausted, but with the finish line in sight, I a goal I set as a 17 year was home. Tears ran down my face with 500m to go, a ten my year year dream was about to be fulfilled. I will never lose the "foe old doing final of secondary school. memory of seeing my friends lined up to cheer me on. A keen runner already, it was my English teacher, a 7 year Unfortunately my Mum missed the finish, busy trying to find Melbourne Marathon veteran, who urged me to give it a go. a park in all the marathon mayhem. As I crossed the line, I made the commitment to do 10 after hearing about this the body told me in no uncertain terms it had had enough. Spartan's club. With a surname of Startin, I thought, "Startin An uncontrollable vomiting fit was not an ideal finish to my the Spartan" had a ring itl certain to 1Oth Marathon, and a less than impressive 4:13:52 was As you all know, conditions need to be going for you in disappointing to say the least, but as all runners who order to put in a good time. Unfortunately on the day, an complete the marathon know, it is the most emotional unusually hot second Sunday in October made for a tough release you can ever experience. day at the office. I had not nearly enough training done to Raising money for the Royal Children's Hospital was a cope with such a day, added to this a chest infection I wonderful experience, it is only a small part that I played just 1 picked up 0 days out from the run, I knew on the but saving lives of our young is a part that is very, very big, start line I was in for a torrid morning. and I am privileged to have my name associated with the Running for the Royal Children's Hospital, I was aiming for Royal Children's Hospital. I can't say that I will see you all a PB of 3:28 56 so Asics would sponsor the $5,000 they on the start llne next year, I no doubt will for those doing the were prepared to give to this worthy institute if I could half marathon. My next goal? 10 half marathons in a row! produce I run a better time. went through half way of the Finish Timc 421315(t Ploco 880 in a good time, smack bang on target for a PB, but The winner of the Emily Cook Award for raising sponxtrship money for the I knevu, in the back of my mid that a lack of training, along Royal Children's Hospital Cood Friday Appeal was Stephen Amiet who n,ith the chest infection, and the hot weather starting to kick raised 5737.Stephen ran the A.sics Melbourne Marathon in a time in, that I rvas in a bit of trouble. of 4:1O:21.

lS;!.!.:.i' !:-.:+!:l tosing mg Beligion potential for "runners high". A day where you feel so good just (End.R spirit oad rcu! ot the 0SKS Melbouroe lUlorothon) that you keep going faster and further, never tiring, feeling better. The 20O4 ASICS Melbourne Marathon started on a cloudless spring morning. The temperature was cool. The brilliant ln the first few early minutes of the race, in the cool of early blue sky reflected in the calm blueness of the bay; that is, morning, the spirit of the race was shining gold and silver! if the competitors cared to take a peek out across to the You could breath in the smell of possibility and the spirit of seaside vistas that regularly open up along the famous competition! We all felt it. Dreams could be realised on a bapide course. lt was one of those mornings that seemed day like this! perfect for running fast. There is optimism and resolve. Many are running to raise fu the field began to stretch out in those early first few money for the marathon charities in both the marathon and minutes you got the feeling that it could be, yes, a perfect half marathon. Tim Dormon running for Camp Quality and day. One of those days where you sense that there's the iay Mueller representing the Mental lllness Fellowship are trq

takes up the running with Saeki Tsutomu and the real work begins. They turn off the highway at Mordialloc and begin the tough part of the course all the way through to Brighton. Now we enter soul's territory. Soul lives in warm, languid places. ln soul territory we've descended from the mountain into the valley; we're no longer on a "high". Like lcarus ascending and coming to grief from the warmth of sun's rays, so the October sun began to melt the wings of those that flew too high, that went out too fast.

Soul floods us with warmth of all varieties. For instance, we may feel a new regard for the many volunteers, realising, debut marathoners and reckon they can get by on some as the going gets tougher, that their encouragement and expert advice from race patron Rob De Castella, some long support is crucial to us continuing. Soul territory emphasises training runs, footy training and aerobics classesl Will they connectedness. Although we still want to do our best, we make the 42.2k's?. No worries matel start to appreciate the shelter and support of the pack. We may even encourage others around us it's a long way Andrew Startin, running for the Royal Children's Hospital - to go and a hard task to do it alone. We look out for family Cood Friday Appeal, has marathon experience but has members, hoping for a cheer. concentrated his training on football. Still he has nine Melbourne marathons under his belt so, of course, reckons Little by little soul envelops us in the urge to slow, to move a PB could bre on the cards. like lazy, tropical lizards,.to lie down. ln soul territory we encounter the ordinary. At around kilometres many TV and radio personality Des Dowling, running for Sacred' 32 realise their limitations. Dream goals are revised or Heat Mission St Kilda, and Sandy Hearn, running for Eye abandoned. Many just hope now to finish. The long, Research Australia, want half marathon PB's. straighg ordinary flatness of Brighton's Colden Mile is When we speak here about spirit, we use the word like a perhaps the toughest section of the course. Magnus is crazy old Beat poet. Like Jack Kerourac we're On the Road! feeling the heat and is slowing. Saeki Tsutomu up to this Eccentric psychologist James Hillman sees spirit not as a point looked comfoftable, but now drops away. His dreams thing, but as a way of perceiving. Hillman reckons spirit of victory are gone. lives in the peak, the "highs", and is ablaze with light. Hillman associates soul with salt. ln soul's realm we Spirit is fast and quickens what it touches. It makes our James experience the bitter taste in our mouths of fatigue, pulses race! lt excites us and inspires prose with exclamation - disappointment and pain. Salt gives each of us a sense of marks! It is an arrow - straight and knife-sharp. lt urges us to the personal salt in tears, sweat and blood. The help we climb the mountain, to feel the coolness of altitude, to leave - receive from others is doubly appreciated behind our fellow travellers and journey upward, to commit - they become heroic deeds or die trying. the "salt of the earth". It is here we sometimes mourn and curse. Sometimes we As and Magnus Michelsson took the lead don't want to acknowledge limitations. We in the first few kilometres there was spirit, competitive spirit our question. "Why have the race in October? Why I have wait for certainly, and the urge to leave the rest of the field far did to drinks? Why don't they make it an easier course? Why? behind. Those of us not in the lead group also suck in spirit, Because its the soul of Melbourne and its marathon. The wanting to feel light and airy so that the kilometres just float fluky weather, the wind off the Bay, the October humidity, by. Wanting to be sharp, unflinching, honed for action. We and the journey from Frankston all give the Melbourne want to feel refreshed, cool and comfortable, ready to climb the mountain. Marathon its character and forms its soul spaces. Like a welcome cool change for All"d.istance runners secretly wonder quietly whether the those that make it through to Elwood, there is a hint of relief. The sniff of spirit can heavens will smile on us and grant a day where we run and again just be distinguished from the latt6s and the sweetness feel no pain. Like a punter with his wager on a high-odds of electrolyte replacement products. We speak about teams roughy, we nervously yearn for just one of those rare special getting a sniff of victory, of winning glory; this is the essence days. Where you feel so good that you keep going faster that pervades the air as competitors pass the St Kilda marina and further, never tiring, just feeling better. and head towards the Esplanade. Magnus, though now After an hour or so into the marathon spirit declines. Rod clocking over a minute per kilometre slower than his early De Highden, having made the pace for Magnus, pulls out pace, has the aura of a winner. looking uncomfoftably warm, his job completed. Magnus continued over page lloce Comrnentorry

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Spirit grows stronger the closer one gets to the finish. There To finish the marathon is a spiritual experience. Many of us is a sense that a mighty achievement is possible no matter surprise ourselves with tenacity and willpower we never the disappointment after a humbling brush with soul. thought possible. There is also the sense that we could have The competitive spirit rises up. Saeki Tsutomu and John so easily have had to relinquish ourselves to soul, to defeat, Meagher stage a fight to the death for second place like or disappointment. The marathon helps us "lose our reli- the last two samurai left on a medieval battleground, gion", our dogmatic certainties, our jaunty self-confidence. sprinting in agony the final few metres of the race. Paradoxically it leaves us knowing ourselves better having experienced the peaks of spirit and the valleys of soul. The runners doing it for charity have also braved the heat. The half marathoners have come away the least unscathed @ Don Nicholson - ll fivo-timo Mclbourne Morathon with Des Dowling comfortably finishing under his two hour compctitor uho this goor plcodod middlo o9o goal and Sandy Hearn only three minutes off her PB. The monopousc ond sour it oll from ths sonctuorg of the marathoners have clearly had their brush with soul space, lcod cor! with Tim Dormon, Andrew Startin and Jay Mueller all For a different take on the meanings of spirit and soul, check finishing between 4:13 and 4:24 a long time to be - out ames Hill m an, ReVisioning Psychology, H arperPerenni al, out in the heat. Still they have climbed their peak and J NewYork,1975. completed the marathon course.

Following are my feelings At the 10 K mark I was 3 minutes slower than last year and in regards to my now com- by the time I got to the 21K half way mark my time was 6 pleted 2Oth Asics Melbourne minutes slower than last year. lt was going to be a massive Marathon, held on the 1Oth effort to get to Albert Park. At the 30 k mark I had to stop to October 2004. This realized take in some lollies via some glucose snakes to build up my a long-term goal, which I set energy and then the wind dropped a tad and I enjoyed the way back in 1980. 30K-40Kmark.

From the commencement of I crossed the Iine in 3 hours and 4 minutes some 37 my early Sunday morning minutes slower than last year. However with a surprise rising at 5.00 A.M., I made support team consisting of twelve adults and one child Park sure I had a very healthy awaiting me at the finish line at Albert my physical and mental shape was changed from disappointing one to a trreakfast and plenty of fluid. form of happiness/achievement and life changed a hell of a I then I proceeded to South lot. I also focused on my next goal of competing in another Melbourne to pick up my marathon in Oita, .fapan on the 31st October. support team, Mr David Biggs, who then drove me to the I have since come back from competing in the Oita marathon starting point at the one mile bridge in Frankston. marathon. lt was completed in pouring rain in a minimal At 7.3O A.M.l was in relaxation mode preparing myself better time of 2 hours 56 minutes. mentally and physically for the 42K journey to Albert Park. I am quoted as saying "l think this will be my last Nervously I then moved to get into my racing wheelchair Melbourne Marathon. At fifty-two I feel the body's messages and with plenty of stretching and encouragement from to slow down, though I reckon l'm in good shape". I do have further expectations of myself in a most positive frame David I pushed off to get a good warm up and get the juices of mood whether its a Half Marathon in Melbourne next flowing- Before long it was 7.55 A.M., only 3 minutes before year or who knows what but be sure life will be enjoyed (wfreelcfiair athletes) race commencement the time. and will consist of being happy and full of doing the things At the marathon starting line there were four wheelchair that I enjoy such as being with family and friends, going out athletes - lan Rhode, Willie Tan, Brett McArthur and myself. also exercising and eating healthy food. I feh quite good at the time however upon the start I faced Finish lime 3zO7z59 an urr@d head wind and a lot warmer conditions than in 2fi)3- My bodr'started to feel lethargic and I was in real 4th lllhcelchoir finisher fuffile rrode on mv own because all the other (3 younger) drleres had l€tt nre for good and I was doing it hard on my own. ROCG Comrnentorg

Mg erpcrionco of llsics Molbourno Morothon past: "You have to start and to finish. What comes in between doesn't matter." Thank you for those words. Summer arrived Even though I have run a heap of marathons, and should with a vengeance be experienced enough at the discomfort that the activity on marathon day. entails, those words uttered as I fought my demons put it Perfect skies, little all into perspective. breeze, and lots of sunshine. Beautiful But negative sentiment about the weather aside, marathon weather, but runners of fortitude could appreciate what a marvellous day maybe not so good this was. The sea was dazzlingly blue, and dotted with sails. for runners. After There was very little wind so the water was calm. lt looked months of training so inviting. The beaches weren't yet busy but they would be in the cold and the by lunch time for sure. rain, heat was not Along this delightful coastal route there are three patches exactly what we that I always look forward to, for the standout scenery. were acclimatized to. Talking to Running through Mordialloc is a highlight. With the road marathon right by the water, and the hills of Ricketts Point yet to visitors from come. Marathoners are over their initial worries and settling

Tasmania, I into the race. We're warmed up. But not yet fatigued. gathered that this A little conversation starts between strangers. A few jokes was not the weath- are swapped. Mind you, none of these are very funny, yet er they had been we laugh heartily. training in either. The long golden beaches reaching to Beaumaris are there Melbourne weather is fickle, and we are proud of that. lt's on the horizon. There are spectators. My running club, changeable. lt's unpredictable. And above all it's unreliable. South Melbourne, had a drinks table along this stretch so l've run this marathon four times and in four consecutive I was cheered on as I trotted past. Such abuzzlhatl years we have had a tailwind along the Nepean Highway recorded my fastest kilometre of the day. I was on a mental and Beach Road, a headwind along the Nepean Highway high which was to last until Brighton. and Beach Road, freezing rain on the start line, and this The next coastal delight comes in Brighton, with the run year unseasonable warmth on the start line. alongside the railway line from Hampton surf club to This year's marathon is littered with stories of runners who Milanos. This stretch is always subject to the vagaries of the suffered in the high temperatures. Some worse than others. weather and can be brutal in a headwind, but this year Severe dehydration. Cood runners recording a rare DNF. wind was not an issue. The road follows the ridge line with Discomfort and suffering reducing able runners to a slow walk. unimpeded sea views.

The effects of the heat can be quite insidious. Personally And then there's the Beaconsfield Parade stretch, where I ran fine as far as Brighton, and then suddenly the battle the finish is tantalisingly just out of sight. But the Spirit of began. The brain yelled "STOP!" I did a body check: Tasmania is usually in dock at Station Pier just down the no pain. I simply felt very low on energy and could not road, and every year the palm fringed footpath, with beach maintain any reasonable pace. The power was turned off. beyond, has crowds watching the race unfold, rollerblading A sure sign of dehydration. I had been drinking at every aid and walking out for brunch. station but obviously not enough. Running along Kerferd Road towards the finish was another I was not alone. By South Road, Brighton I caught up with highlight this year. I got a second wind along here. Strange several runners who were reduced to a walk. This seemed to to get a second wind so late on, but it was very welcome. be much earlier on in the piece than in previous years. There I picked up the pace and managed a strong finish. ln 2003 were more and more walkers as I continued along the way. I had found those tunnels under Pit Straight in Albert Park a bit of a drag hard to adjust to running downhill after all Most runners I chatted with at the finish had achieved a - that time on the flat, and even harder to make the effort to slower finishing time than anticipated. I was slower than I climb out of the tunnel; little dips took on the feel of a hoped by fifteen to twenty minutes. lt's always a little major ordeal. This year I swooped down and raced up disappointing to fail to meet a time goal. But the harder again, and that was it! The finish, for another year. days make for the better stories. Memories. The marathon is meant to be a challenge, after all. lt's an endurance test. As @ Julio Thorn. a friend and marathon runner, who had decided to spectate Finish Time 3252256 Ploce 576 from a Brighton corner this year, said to me as I laboured

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