Hi Bruce,

Yes oustanding performance for sure. We were following Darin closely in
Ontario too.

Congrats on a very fast time. I believe Esmond Mah has completed this
grulling event too.

Way ta go Darin, Jim.


From: "Bruce Grant" <lonerunman@...>
To: bc-ultrarunning@yahoogroups.com, ous-l@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [bc-ultrarunning] Spartathlon - Darin Bentley
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:29:40 -0700

*WOW!!*

Congratulations to Darin, who finished - get this! - *11th overall* and the
second North American behind race winner Scott Jurek. It looks like
everything came together perfectly on the day, with ideal training and
peaking, and a complete recovery from nagging injuries earlier in the year.

Darin finished in 27:51, a pretty smoking time for 246km when many of us
mortals are hard-pressed to break 24 for "just" 162km. That's sub-11 minute
miles for the entire distance - not an easy thing to do for that long.

What a fantastic result, we should all be proud of Darin for such an
outstanding performance and for representing our country in this
high-profile event. To the best of my knowledge (and please correct any
error), he is the first Canadian to complete this gruelling run, and in
doing so has certainly set the bar high for anyone else to follow.

cheers,
Bruce


2008/9/25 <jim.morrison6@...>

> Good Luck and Best wishes to Darin who will be the only Canadian in
> tomorrow's historic Spartathlon in Greece. For those unfamiliar in is
> 246km
> race in Greece covering the historic route from Athens to Sparta. It
> starts
> at the Acropolis.
>
> For twenty four consecutive years, the Spartathlon athletes have followed
> the route John Foden and his team defined in 1982 when they experimented
in
> running from Athens to Sparta. It is based on Herodotus' description of
the
> Athenian 'Imerodromou' or messenger who arrived in Sparta the day after
he
> departed from Athens and also on well known historical events of that
time.
> It has, therefore, been considered the nearest route to that which
> Pheidippides must have followed.
>
> Briefly, Miltiades' messenger started out of Athens on the ancient Iera
> Odos, or "sacred road," up to Elefsis. From there he followed Skyronia
> Odos,
> a military road on the slopes of the Gerania mountains, and traveled
> through
> Isthmia, Examilia and Ancient Corinth. He went on to Ancient Nemea, thus
> avoiding the Epicratea of Argos, as it wasn't in alliance with Athens,
and
> he continued along the mountains between Argolida and Arcadia. He climbed
> the Parthenio mountain (1200 meters), where he encountered the God Pan.
> Descending the mountain, he continued in the direction of historical
Tegea,
> one of the locations mentioned by Herodotus in his account about
> Pheidippides. He proceeded south toward Sparta. Upon his arrival in
Sparta,
> he completed 1140 "stadia," which equaled 246 kilometers.
>
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