Unbelievable news arrived early this morning from Kathmandu. Tshering and his coach have been working hard at their end to ensure that our Run for the Hills will be an event for all to remember. When Tshering, who trains with the Nepali running team, promised to bring his elite "buddies" to the race we had no idea that he was this serious!
Now confirmed as a runner in our race is Baikuntha Manandhar - known as Nepal's own "Olympic Flame"! He has participated in 4 Olympic games and performed amazing results in each one. In 1976 in Montreal Baikuntha finished in an amazing 2:30:07, then in 1980 in Moscow an even more amazing 2:23:51, he continued to amaze in both 1984 in Los Angeles finishing in 2:22:51 and finally in 1988 in Seoul he finished in 2:25:57. Here we are in 2009 and he's still running! Now we're getting nervous...perhaps we should ramp up our training???
Tshering's coach has also agreed to take us on a "fun" run when we are there. I fear to think what that really means!
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