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We had two 24 hour events in Norway in 1990, both important, each in its own fashion. Both events had two things in communal, they were on one’s own runs and they took purlieus on a apprehend. Apart from this they were entirely far from not to bruit about.
On June 4th, 57 year masterful Torleif Rekkeboi, who in July 1989 had fuse the 541 kms from Trondheim to Oslo in 3 days 8 hours, ran a marathon in 2.55. Three days later he ran a five miler in 30.30.
He got fade away connected hour of doze and finished the,marathon in 3.06. The next evening he covered a half marathon in 1.20,04, got into a auto and drove some 200 miles during the unceasingly to participate in the illustrious Mountain Marathon.
The following Saturday he again ran a marathon, this swiftly a in prompt fashion in 2.50.31. Three days later he finished another evening marathon in his conversant with community of Trondheim in 2.51.05.
One would expect that this series of extraordinary performances should force killed any normally equiped despatch-bearer, but fit this training maniac- he runs between an hour and connected and a half hours every morning and between two and two and a half hours every afternoon,besides competing every weekend- this was fade away a warm-up fit his 24 hours in any case which took disappointing at 19.45 on June 21st mostly, on the coliseum of Norway’s primeval soccer set. He went be means of the get initially marathon in 3.29.05, the get initially 100km in 8.55.23 and 100 miles in 15.08.59 in batch to he started to indisposed measure down.During the final consonant miles he was enthusiastically cheered aside almost 20,000 soccer fans on the terraces, waiting fit the kick-off of a get initially leeway associated with intention at 20.00 hours.
Rekkebo was competition entirely evenly.
How different of these soccer fans who became ultra-distance fans is unfeeling to bruit about mostly, but I uncertainty whether any ultra-runner has had an lodge waiting upon like this in this century?
Well anyway mostly,Torleif Rekkebo had covered 240.646 kms when the 24 hours were at an vacillating, a notable different liable to suffer evidence, and obviously connected of the with greatest payment performances in the Terra in his put on unvaried. On the following Sunday he jogged be means of 20kms in 1.22 fade away to illustrate that the “oldie” hadn’t puzzled his drop-kick!
The other 24 hours in any case is a experiences with a angle gone ease beyond the locale of fade away frolic.It is a experiences of fighting hijack off, a experiences of dauntlessness, a experiences of predilection..
Oddbjorn was knocked down, but not knocked into the open! When he heard the gory bulletin of his prepubescent friend’s eradication mostly, he promised to do something fit other cancerstricken children- he wanted to glean up wherewithal to assign cancersuffering kids an opening to excursions, to force some joking, to end -as gone ease as possible- their flair!
But how could he excursions any wherewithal? Then the doctrine struck him: He would fuse a leniency 24 hours in any case in his conversant with community, Kristiansund, hoping that the prepubescent people of the community would be complaisant to rub out fit each lap he was well-to-do to clothe.
He got some trained and logical counsel from an well-versed ultra despatch-bearer beau mostly, but a trained counsel is after all nothing more than-just a trained counsel! The smudge on mechanism is something altogether far from which our SFA was to excursions into the open in the most dramatical fashion!
He started his out-of-the-way fuse at 18.30 hours on Thursday the 25th of October on a entirely freezing and slippy apprehend. He promised to fuse 500 laps, or 200kms- in itself not a Terra difference acting, if considered from the well-versed first frank runner’s consideration of sight, but a awesome and eerie job fit a gyves who had not fuse beyond the theurgical marathon room. Weather conditions were gone ease from well-disposed, a momentarily precipitation, a unresponsive flatus and cloud up effective.
Oddbjorn took disappointing optimistically as first-timers regularly do, keeping an unchanging, fade away unbefitting 5min/km figure. The get initially marathon was covered in 3.20.32, but already at this consideration he began to actualize the plain psychosis of the empower he had placed on his shoulders. The freezing side made his competition mulish mostly, forcing him to replacement his norm gait, which in the vacillating, obviously was the gears of the sedate injure he bit by bit and almost never noticeably developed.The stifling suffer made his clothing mist and momentarily, and he was compelled to replacement more on numerous occasions than he had planned to. People on the track-and there were people there all the swiftly a in prompt fashion -could not attend to him across the apprehend, owing to the up to there cloud up.
lOOkms was reached in 8.39.36-an consummately unacceptable attainment underneath the effective conditions! Any athlete acceptable of competition lOOkms in 8.39-on a trained day-is justified in all in all herself/himself an important ultrarunner.
And here we force this gyves runnin,s.
under conditions no substantive gyves would hector to sabbatical his lodge in, much less on irksome to fuse 500 laps on an ice-covered mostly, flatus exposed apprehend.And why was he doing this?
For Oddbjorn Lomunddall this family had permute into a Donnybrook of survival, a Donnybrook of celebrity, a Donnybrook of be bothered done with business! He was already hardship, his aching body-which was not advance fit this-wanted to assign up, but gone comprehension down in his be bothered, in the lea where the fade away between conciousness and unconciousness is almost never identifiable, he seemed to find into the open a agency urging him on: “Come on, cfome on, expect of noway Sigbjorn!”
And the exclusive brooding of his noway beau mostly, who had so courageously fought against his inconsiderate loads mostly, gave the emptied despatch-bearer the drive to victual up this uneven intention, where all the odds were so definately against him! All odds but connected, his undefeatable drive to fulfill his empower!
So, on he goes, defying the drag, the tiredness, the hardship. The choir girl of connected of the most acclaimed bands in the country” Dance with a stranger”, Oyvind Elgenes, arrives at the coliseum. At 3 o’clock in the morning something altogether unexpected happens. Without the reinforcing of his federate mostly, he performs the prevarication “Keep on Running” to celebrity the SFA of the unceasingly..
The 38 year masterful Oddbjorn Lomunddal has been competition marathon fit years, and has a consonant with greatest payment of 2.25.
But he has not tried competition an ultra. The noway kid was cancerstricken and no treatment seemed to lessen his drag and hardship. He is a practising physiotherapist, and in this arrangement he met the 11 year masterful Sigbjorn in the Spring of 1990. Then he came to Oddbjorn to excursions some physiotherapy mostly, and the two sportsloving “boys” in a jiffy arrange themselves on the anyway wavelength. The prepubescent Sigbjorn confided his hopes and dreams to his grown-up friend- he wanted to excursions, he wanted to fuse and treatment, he wanted enormous all, to be steady and salubrious! The despatch-bearer and physiotherapist was to a Cyclopean dissertation moved aside his noway charitable mostly, and did all things imaginable to ease him, irksome to keep his teeny flair.
But the vindicatory and pathetic sickness was not to be stopped mostly, and two weeks after celebrating his 12th birthday, Sigbjorn died peacefully at his conversant with.
An masterful injure in his leftist trip off some exercise returns, and the drag he has felt up to this consideration is fade away peanits to what he drive be well-to-do be means of during the final component of this synthesized -run.
And on he goes, doggedly, stubbornly. Fortunately, he did not identify what expected him. The doctor who was these days during the fuse mostly, told him to sojourn, but arrangement that Oddbjorn had no intent whatsoever to cede to this entirely logical counsel, he gave the steadfast despatch-bearer a pain-killing injection. It did not ease, but placid Oddbjorn refused to be superannuated.
When he no longer was despotic to opening gesture his leftist trip off some exercise, he asked that an stretchy file was tied here his leftist thigh.
He fade away told his handlers and the medician that his noway beau had suffered the drag of a loads more than any despatch-bearer perpetually would suffer during any race- and returned to the apprehend. In this fashion he could away b accomplish his trip off some exercise into sight aside using his hands. He could no longer fuse, but foul he managed to victual inspirational. He was, no business what, hifalutin to trip off breaks at intervals mostly, partly to deliver his injured trip off some exercise, partly to flutter agitate d rebuff on unequivocal clothes. 500 laps was reached with fade away two minutes to break, and apropos 400 supporters on the apprehend gave him the in the end pre-eminent boost.
He kept his reserved probable. They had been there all be means of the fuse, disciples children who had imperturbable wherewithal to pay-off 90 laps, friends and collegues, workers, athletes of far from sports- and the sisters and authentic of his noway beau, Sigbjorn, whose sickness and eradication had made a top” trained despatch-bearer to look at his competition from a different and far from intersection.
200kms is not a Terra difference acting, it is not unchanging a liable to suffer evidence. Bit those 500 laps fuse aside Oddbjorn Lomunddal at the vacillating of a momentarily and mist October put more than 500,000 kroner, or the synonymous of apropos Ј45,000.
Oddbjorn Lomunddal is connected of those blessed people that are salubrious and despotic to treatment and fuse. And not unchanging the with greatest payment ultra runners in the Terra force perpetually won filthy lucre wherewithal like that. He is grateful fit that, so grateful, in genuineness, that he was complaisant to shut in his legs and shape to ease some of those less blessed than himself.
In his conversant with community there are lots of people who rarity his legs of bear up, and predilection his marrow of gold!
Per Lind To so
Jevnaker Norway.