A Hard Day's Flight
QFFICIALLY rated as a 12-mile race, the annual Kaiapoi-to-Christchurch road event for harriers finished as a 20-mile run for the veteran long-distance runner, L. E. Fox. A 1950 Empire Games marathon representative, Fox, now 53, did not start in the event last year when the starting point was shifted to a new location, near the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills. Arriving at Kaiapoi on Saturday, Fox set out on foot to find the start, using the run as a warm-up. Asking about the whereabouts of the start, resulted in Fox being directed north along the Main Road. Fox jogged on. On reaching the hotel at Woodend, he realised he had been misdirected and would miss the start of the race. He retraced his steps to the Kaiapoi Post Office. Although Fox had run already the equivalent of twothirds the distance of the actual race, he decided to continue his lonely run. Eighty minutes later Fox reached the finish of the official course in Spurway place, off Hills road. Notwithstanding the extra distance Fox covered he completed his run looking much fresher than many of the competitors, much less than half his age. The photograph shows Fox Striding out south of the Wai-
makariri bridge, when he had already completed about 10 or 11 miles.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 15
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216A Hard Day's Flight Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 15
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