One of Brendan Foster's most used terms over the last 30 years has been his description of a "true run race". To paraphrase him, if a race is tactical then its not always the best runner who wins, never mind that tactics are part of racing.
A true run race appears to be an "eyeballs out" race. In fairness to him, he was wonderful to watch when he used to try and split the fields with his surges of pace.
Great to see that the Great North Run don't employ pace makers. I found time to watch the Great North Run live on BBC tv for the first time for a while on Sunday and a better finish you could not have had.
Brendan, and Steve Cram, always manage to get in plenty of plugs for what you think of as their home stadium.
I had a walk around Gateshead Stadium in 2009 when I spent three nights in Newcastle just before I went down to the London Marathon. It was interesting to note that on a Thursday morning usage of the international stadium was no greater than at our National Sports Centre.
To me, what was even more interesting, was to find that there had also been an athletics stadium on the other side of the River Tyne. Does anyone remember the City Stadium? Its in the top photo and there is barely a trace of the cinder track of what was once intended to be a mixed use stadium with a banked track around the outside for cycling.
I found a description here:
http://www.runtrackdir.com/details.asp?track=newcastle-ci
Google maps shows it up well to:
I did of course pop along to the other stadium in Newcastle.
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