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' catch “up; with’ some :faster’:
» men- I'd - overheard © talking |

. worry me.
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take me seriously.”

“But at. t7: 30 on. ‘the ‘morning

of ‘the race, : ‘Neil : “was *. still”
_ confident.‘ “‘I'was. aiming, for
- 3:45:00,” he said. -

So. at_
Robson Square I started ‘near *
the ‘back of the “pack with
those’ -who- kept | a7: 30 per.

about’ doing. 3:30:00 ‘béfore
thé race: I‘passed them at the

“five mile mark. in Stanley
_ Park. ! Everybody . I passed |

cheered me on. It felt good’
with those-big guys around

’ me. I like being able. to run ©

with the faster: men. I felt -1-
was almost a real threat—not
to win, but they'd have to:

**My legs started to: cramp
up at five miles, but. it didn’ t
I. grabbed. ..a.:

‘down. from seven minutes:
per. mile ‘to 7:15. kept that. .
pace until the last mile of the’ a

’ Stanley Park,’’ -he said.
‘was dying to finish, but Talso |
-felt like my pace was dying. I
-couldn’t:feel my legs.at all. [.-.
doubted that I could finish,
_..but- I was afraid my legs
would cramp up if I slowed to- .

going’ too fast, so. F slo

race.’

“Then I ‘hit aca at21 >

miles as we came back to
“71

a walk. The crowd urged’ me

. on, as..they ‘had: throughout - - :

_ on. my ess as [ ran, ‘and. it”

sponges—all st snatched on the

helped.) 4

Neil never stopped during
the race. He drank three
cups of glucose solution, two
cups of water, and used two_

run.

- FEELIN G Goop

“At 10 miles: L still . felt
good,” said Neil.‘ even
though } could do 3:15:00."
That was near English Bay
before, heading ‘to. the: East
Side. He passed the half-way
mark on Georgia Viaduct, -

-made the turn at Renfrew,

and started back toward
Gastown.

While doing ‘hill training
alone above his West Van-
couvet home, Neil often talks
to himself to avoid being
jonely. ‘‘I also think about
things I ordinarily take for
granted; like anew approach
to a movie I’ve seén
recently,’’ he said. But he

‘going.’

“At 25 miles— (beyond
English Bay) my time was
three hours, 10° seconds,’’
said Neil. ‘‘I still had one
mile, 385 yards to go.

- THE WHOLE RACE

_-Fhen I hit that hill near the
end, and my pace dropped
drastically. (His mother went
there to meet him; sure the
hill sould stop him.) It took
me more than 8:30 to do the
last mile. I almost: ‘stopped to
walk, but I didn’t; and it sure
feels good to know ‘I ran the
whole race.’

Neil ran for himself—‘'To
prove 1 could do it and get a
good time,’’ ‘he said.

time for 12 year olds was
3:45:00,- so that gave me a
goal. on

. sMiatathovers ‘have
saying: ‘No pain; no gain,

a

o of

Travesties returns

Returning to the Q.E.
Playhouse for a_ limited

engagement is The Van-
couver Playhouse

production of Tom Stop-
pard's award-winning
comedy, Travesties.

At the invitation of the
National Arts Centre in
Ottawa, Travesties has been
remounted, It will appear in
Vancouver for 8 per-
formances only, May 17 to
24 at the Q.E. Playhouse,
before moving to Ottawa for
a 3-week runin June.

Travesties is built around
Stoppard’s happy historical
discovery that Zurich in
1917 was the temporary
home of James Joyce, the

Irish novelist (Andrew
Gillies); Tristan Tzara, the
extraordinary Dadaist

(Heath Lamberts); Lenin,
the hero of Bolshevism
(Terence Kelly); and Henry

Carr, a minor British con-

sular officer (Christopher
Newton).

Tickets are available from
any Vancouver Ticket
Centre outlet, including
Eaton's or call 683-3255.

Italian concert

The Italian Centre will
present a chamber music
concert with the Cecilian
Ensemble, June 1, in the
main hall of the Centre, 3075
Slocan St., Vancouver.

The Cecilian Ensemble,
for this special occasion
only, will perfarm only
Italian) music by Corelli,
Fescobaldi, Boccherini and
Torelli,

The group consists of
Carlo Novi (baroque violin),

Susie Napper (cello and
viola), Patrick Wedd
(harpsicord), The Cecilian
Ensemble, which was for-
med in 1973, has focused its
interests on the chamber
music of the Baroque
period.

Tickets for the concort are
$3.00 for adults with free
admission for senior citizens.
For further information,
please telephone the Italian
Centre at 430-1541.

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