Pat Carroll 

         Unplugged Lee Troop
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Lee Troop ("Troopy" to those who personally know him!) is currently Australia's top Marathon runner and finished an impressive 17th at last year's Paris World Championships that cemented his place in this year's Athens Olympic Games.
 

Personal bests for Lee Troop

Lee Troop - running hard

I recall the time that Lee Troop broke Ron Clarke's long-standing Australian 5,000 metres record where he lowered it from 13.16 to 13.14.82 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Track event.

I knew Lee was going to run well as he ran a personal best for 3,000 metres the week before in Sydney of  7.41.78.

I was frantically searching the night of the race for the result with no avail and I got up early the next morning changing channels on the radio and television hoping to hear some news of the meet and to hopefully find out any news about the elusive Lee Troop record run.

Unsuccessful and frustrated I went out for my morning run.

Later the same morning whilst driving my daughter to school I stopped at the newsagency and purchased a paper. As I got back into the car and glanced through the sports section of the newspaper my daughter asked what I was looking for.

I explained that Lee Troop ran a 5,000 metre race in Melbourne the night before and I was trying to find out how he went.
 

"Forgot to tell you Dad.......he broke the record."

Jessica then came out with "Oh yeah that's right, forgot to tell you Dad. Lee Troop phoned last night to say that he had broken the Australian Record and ran 13.14". Kids, don't you just love them.

Lee is running the London Marathon on the 18^th of April and recently finished 21^st in the World Cross Country. I caught up with Lee via the Internet less than two weeks out from the race whilst he was at his London Marathon base.
 

Unplugged Lee Troop

Pat Carroll: Lee, you ran incredibly fast on the track yet your time there seemed relatively short lived. Was there any particular reason for your fast tracked transition to the Marathon?

Lee Troop: I don't believe my marathon transition was fast tracked. I always wanted to be a marathoner ever since I started running at 11 years of age. I had been held back by Mona for 3 or 4 years before he felt I was ready to take the event on. To me, I felt like I was slow tracked!

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