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In the drivers seat with Lee Troop
Exclusive patcarrollonline.com
interview
The Marathon always has, and always will be, a
mystical event. I have often heard that physiologists have
reason to believe that the human body is ideally capable of
covering 32k. The final 10k of the Marathon therefore is really
testing our energy stores and true worth. Having run a few, I do
tend to agree with this for I have hazy recollections of being
in strife during, and especially in the closing stages of a
Marathon.
I have never had a baby, my gender being pretty
much responsible for that, however, I know that you would never
ask a woman who has just given birth if she was ready to go
through the whole ordeal again. With time though, one forgets
the pain and ordeal of labour and the experience is often
repeated.
If you fully extend yourself in a Marathon your
body is often asking for a reprieve at various stages and one
can feel pretty much wasted when you cross the line. With time
the memory of intense fatigue fades, training resumes at a high
level and the fire in your belly burns once again and another
Marathon is run.
Childbirth
and Marathon Running?
Now ladies, not for one minute am I going to draw
parallels between childbirth and Marathoning and you have my
utmost respect there. Where I do see a comparison though is that
in both you are so enriched by the whole experience and that,
over time, your mind and body forgets the pain yet the joy of
the end result remains with you forever.
Recently I
interviewed Lee Troop in the lead-up to the
London Marathon.
London has now been run and won by Evans Rutto (Kenya) in 2.06.18 and Lee finished
a highly creditable 8th place in a time of 2.09.59.
Lee was on 2.06 - 2.07 pace up until 37k when, unfortunately,
the Marathon Bear jumped on his back, resulting in him loosing
on average 30 sec per kilometre over the closing 5k.
I therefore
thought, that with less than a week out from London, now would
be an ideal time to capture Lee's thoughts on how he felt in the
London Marathon before nature and time takes it's course and
removes any unfavourable memories of the race from his mind. My
aim is to capture an insight into Lee's 2004 London Marathon
experience.
Following is the post London
discussion that I had with Lee.
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