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° CE EC CC WP (@ 0 1Â¥ MB AR wH Cw PR O 2 O2 200 0 o o U v U v o V s & @ y) ® W w ul 1 THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, June 12, 2008 â€" 17 Feature ; Rinineninimmeanenemenmentinascmmmmmmmmmesieannommnsmmun mamemmens ns anemmesnmanmammemmemeniecmmemmmmen snn mm nnnnmmnerms us concnntemmmcmnnan ancnincanneannmanmnnate ue e anccnme t nc ceccmimnmacrnnennn mm nacmanmnmanie nc cnsunnennansancnneinecnnctesw w ncaliie cce tncae attivenn Cramahe‘ thon man shares experience of Ottawa run _ Born in Cobourg, Robin Mounsteven. Schroeder‘s words of advice didn‘t calm me . mhamminn llke m o) the last thing I needed to see, as my own grew up in Cramahe Township where he down. Being a firstâ€"time runner, I didn‘t | e W | s3| hamstrings felt like they were about to attended South Cramahe Public School know what to expect from my body after | ”' 6 W . \ ® | cramp. y wakn, before moving on to ENSS. The 24â€"yearâ€"old â€" the 30â€"kilometre mark. I would find out it | wl P 32 Sasee M ‘fi u9 { ;i With four kilometres left, my trusty iâ€" runner graduated this June from the was painful. P . | C m Aeltt Pe, | . )* Pod died due to the amount of water and University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of When I began running down Telephone | “g j y << * Py wl tots sweat I can imagine it took in. It was my Arts with a geography major. â€" Road in Grade 9, I was doing it to keep in. . | | wl ime (.. * | only means of knowing my time. w The younger son of Al and Jean shape and to stay healthy, never giving W M ~ c 5 ) J I was running the ING marathon for i Mounsteven has been running the roads of â€" much thought to running competitively or J UÂ¥ is | dgfi / i\ more than just the experience. It held the \ Cramahe for many years. He began running at a marathon level. I simply, tossed my e h‘, k | > >( key to a dream I had been harbouring â€" to to get into shape for hockey and ball. It‘s shoes on and ran, sometimes long ie comr db Mé run the Boston Marathon. I needed:to gone on from there. In the past year he has distances, sonpetimes short, and some_tu_nes C T . i know my times. . begun to take his running more seriously â€" with good friend Scott Chapman riding. . WR P * PE o) The Boston Marathon has a storied > Last month he finished in the top per cent of alongside me on his ATV, Running was | L 3 A it world history as the pinnacle of marathon runners in his firstever marathon. always a way for me to relax, a chance to *4 | F BsE cunning. It is the only race in North If all goes according to plan, he will be think, to leave behind whatever stresses I 1 E: e § _4 America, with the exception of t;hq wearing the Chronicle colours in the Boston â€" had at the time. « iffi}fm:;: l woik OIYTPIC %l.lfahfymg rg[f:gs, where a runfier > f Marathon next spring. Vghe'? i ’fl? ‘{fifd t,fiy(s)etf? “{;’;‘nf,‘;r%'fésn‘i; ' pÂ¥tâ€" ie | E;Sca%ggolrsg 1t§ ;"lfi)l"SS "Ié‘lfiust-v?rtafsnl.}na;kgégli academics, I fo C O Alith { | & flce t By Robin Mounsteven _running regimen to those of others, || f . Siiniinmrsasnng m and my motivation on every cold winter @~«‘~""~~ mM m css ut marathon. s Comnt fereai | 0 al Au y ; sealli For the past year, I have kept myself to a | at home. ; ) INgigfiafi.firflifif:ig?rfglfoafi:%%‘ strict running schedule that had me j | . AsI :;pproachgti}llthe final kilometres, I i line. As Ljoin 4,000 runners making their running UD to 115 kilometres weekly as the ‘ | _ was doing so with no knowledge of my ; J ’m y mom quickly hugs me. race neared. . | â€" running time and with two dangerously \ waito ie s f my parents to yell "Be _ No amount of training could put my | tight hamstrings. I knew I would be close _ j Ewall f,‘,’r Tof ?h'n ythat was always said â€" mind at ease in the days prior to the race. I | | to my goal, and I hadn‘t yet had to"be carelu" > e to run up and down the was extremely nervous because of the J Superman. 88. ( as I left Ehe fglrlzmahe Township. unknown factor: what would happen to my I It was soon to come. _ 2 J k i}? were not worried about cars . body after 30 kilometres? As I passed the 41â€"kilometre markex, I cce eÂ¥ n the race course. The With all the anticipation leading up to J felt I tightness in my left leg that forcedâ€"me speeding pas mea?ne Imade my way to a race day, the start was relatively [ to stop â€" a rookie move, becausevit re’mmder\neverlcof finely tuned athletes â€" uneventful. In the commotion, I missed the % tightened completely. ies cramped corra to enter my head. gunshot to signal the beginning of the race. | : &A member of the medical team came to yalg? t};egan (1)1ou1der-to-shdulder, As I began to see heads thinning out in niimeipmh ols\ C _0 __ my aid and offered his advice: "If you want Waiting t ere,fsmiliar faces, I found . front of me, it was my turn to start. qy to finish, you need to walk it off, or it will ; with so many Un aun d the huddle to see Suddenly, I was comfortable, as if I had i“ get worse." I began to limp and eventually A myself 100k1ntgili:ll‘t0 s were doing to help forgotten it was just running. The race geâ€"al, jog again. k 3 _ amiye 1e x As a firsttime â€" begins by running past Parliament Hill, a . I@M®® r T always wondered what emotions arrd Y a focus themiehvgst.o calm myself down. scene I was comfortable with because it Puoto contasuree / thoughts would be going through my head f huemioiss 6tiaz‘)ns were going through â€" was on my training route; it helped to keep _ Plugged in to his iâ€"Pod, Robin Mounsteven is â€" as I travelled down the final few hundred j Egrohlélaa:ings?%aited. me in check mentally. on ‘th on a pace to qualify for the Boston meters to the f1n1sh‘ line. I laugh with ‘All those other runners at the starting Through the f].l‘.St half of the marathon, . Marathon. friends now as I explain to them that I feel line whom I couldn‘t stop looking at were my body felt great: no injuries, no pains. I robbed of the answer because the only f f | doi;;v the same thins I was doing: standing, â€" Was happy to see my time at the 21 ‘An Olympic coach I had the opportunity thoughts and feelings going through y waiting, looking around. I wasn‘t going to â€" kilometre split to be 1:32:15, not a gr°eat â€" to meet told me, as a firstâ€"time marathon â€" 1Cad were: "Please make it to that finish find the inspiration I was looking for here. . Geal different than times I had recorded in â€" runner, at some point in the race, I was line without my leg ceasing completely." â€" The race organizer welcomed the elite my last weeks of training. But, not t00 | going to have to be Superman, something In the final 100 metres, I looked up to see â€" athletes to the front of the line, some of much farther and I would enter that that didn‘t escape my mind for the last 15 _ I Was Within reach of the running time for % whom were using the times they ran that . unknown distance. For the first time in the â€" kjlometres. my Boston Marathon goal. I crossed the ‘ f day to qualify for the Olympics later this â€" race I was worried. ho v4 3 As I approached the 30â€"kilometre split, _ Lne in 3:10:283, qualifying by 36 seconds. I summer. I knew we were only minutes There is a great deal of significance in â€" goreness in my legs set in and I knew it Might have been the happiest exhausted â€" | away from the start of the race. 4 the distances between 30 and 42 ‘lfflomejtre’e:. was about time for a superhero‘s. berson in Ottawa. mtc | Former Olympic marathon champion for“alll n}arathoners;, The term "bonking"" ‘appearance. But, it wasn‘t until around the I placed 228th overall, and 11th in my | Frank Schroeder stepped up to the podium . 0r "hitting the wall" is a condition when . 37 kilometre mark, with both hamstrings _ Category of males between the ages of 20â€"to J as guest starter, advising to the eager endurance athletes lose glycogen stores in â€" as tight as knots, that I realized I could be 24 2 Category which held four of the top 10 | crowd of runners, "Remember not to go out Zhe(a} n%uscllies, essentla];ili' lfismg all energyâ€" â€" in serious trouble overall finishers l | too fast. As every runner knows, the first atorade commercial shows the impact, inci 219 f 5 | half of the run is 2”0 miles and the second dep_ictirgg a m:;rathoner who wobbles to the poi?leln}f;gfél ;at%f;fi,tl:’ Sa::ig:;rlou;rfll;etzzmms m(;/?nh:;ledifl21;251;0&1%&;1;;(}&?;15&912 . : half is six miles." Needless to say, Mr. t;nailsh line. Finally collapsing, he hits the â€" on about 20 metres to see a man in his 40s Teminder of training routines on ba;:k | @ R £ ( clutching the back of his right leg. It was 102ds, both quiet and unassuming. f \‘