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THE HERALD November Nov 18 Running more than putting one foot in front of other Congratulations the local high school runners who have this past weekend further engraved the name of n into the annals of cross country running In a lime when everyone and Ins dog il seems is getting into ru here is plenty if competition when it comes to p nine one foot in front of the other Led by Ian Clark the High won an five team championship at the all Ontario in Kings I n on Ihc weekend This makes the town of Georgetown the hot bed of young runners In the province This is the high school where future John Bannisters will want to come and enroll Coach Karen Cosgrove will lake under her protective wing and make them fly The growth of Ihc sport of running in Georgetown las been growing in the past few years Many local runners ire hitting the streets and back road vicing for space to stretch their legs in leaps and bounds a local resident runsaioupleof miles the GO every morning to Toronto gels and runs to work a couple more miles He docs the reverse on the way home Councillor Minlyn Serjeanlson is also a runner RUNNING Perhaps it was the making of the movie Running recently made here with Douglas that spurred everyone on Incidental that movie has just been relensed and it only shows day long shooting here for about three minutes Not really I thai is where popularity of the sport sprang from here Rather the Georgetown reputation for running may have spread far enough for producers to figure this was the perfect spot for their For most people it Is hard to comprehend what goes the fleetest of foot youngsters In the province As for me I think I know Bannister in my first year of high school Although I what one would coll an Olympic champ on I though was pretty good because I outran the cops a few limes however girls Once I was bitten in the derrierc by a dog running Fortunately I was on a team in that had twin brothers who were the best high school runners in the country at the time That was nine years ago and their names were Paul and Spencer Drysdale Once of them was a little better than the other but I t tell the difference Twin you know Then went to the States on a scholarship and never heard of again I ran with them in the one year Only I got lost on the course I keep up to the last of the heap of runners But some other guy and I even lost him think he Is sill running around Richmond Hill Maybe they will have signs on for him too Runner His name I Falling Rock FUN RUN This past spring the Muskoka Free Press where I worked before coming here held a fun run through the t was only kilometres long or metres which sounds like more but it was a long ten of whatever you want to call it I called it 6 miles since was six weeks before the race that I decided lo enter The first week 1 started out with one mile and gradually built it up lo race day The best I had done was five miles On race day or fun run day I did Ihc run finishing about the middle of the pack with a cruel lime of minutes Not great until you figure nine minutes a mile for six miles A nine minute mile the first lime too bad isn I too bad for a self taught crash course on running So 1 have a rough idea what these local stars did on the weekend 1 be the first to acknowledge their triumphs Only I won be able to accompany the few- runners who will be going to Halifax this weekend for the Canadians Another paper in our chain will cover It FREE PIZZA TOPPINGS Now thru Monday November 26- The Rotary Club of Georgetown are sponsoring a skate a thon November IB the Gordon Five grand prizes radios stcrws will be gnen to the people who must money Others wlo collect or more will win an Adidas training Jacket those with Is another of the many community endeavors the Rotary Club undertakes to raise funds for other projects in the it sponsors Sponsor forms arc able at schools Ice tryouts figure skaters wl wish to go into the show business end of skating rather than the competitive end of the rink have the chance to show their stuff to the people of the Ice Cipndes Fndn Maple Leal looking for future prospects Skaters don have to be gold lists but know the basic and jumps of figure lolmt Those selected will be ton when the is back il lis headquarters Interested hopefuls pleisc bring your skates and eome lo side doors f Gardens loiiuil Dim I miss line lice loppings Well feed you better than mother Highway Sinclair Georgetown HOI 11 i