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26-10-2011, 01:27 AM | #1 | ||
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Ok the gumboots is a bit of an exaggeration, but this blew me away.
Now I don't consider myself all that young but i'd never heard of this guy untill the weekend just passed, I thought my dad and uncle were having a lend of me when they told me about it so I thought i'd show them up and do some internet searching. Well to my amazement it was actually true, all I can say is wow, if only there were more people on earth like this bloke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDggA...eature=related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_%28athlete%29 Anyway, hope you enjoy this story as much as I did.
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26-10-2011, 02:16 AM | #2 | ||
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I remember Cliff (I'm old) lol
What a legend!
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26-10-2011, 02:39 AM | #3 | ||
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Yeah thats going back a few years, is the old bugger still kicking.
They did some stories on ACA, real aussie character.
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26-10-2011, 05:54 AM | #4 | ||
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I can't believe that some people haven't heard of him
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26-10-2011, 08:01 AM | #5 | ||
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I thought his name was firmly entrenched in aussie legend, perhaps I am too old now.
Never forget the images of the old potato farmer, flogging the worlds best using his famous "Cliff Young shuffle".
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26-10-2011, 08:19 AM | #6 | ||
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He died up here a few years ago. We used to go down to Beech Forest when I was an apprentice and you'd see Cliffy in the paddocks running round with his cows .............in the gumboots............
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26-10-2011, 09:15 AM | #7 | ||
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He died in 2003 in his 80's
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26-10-2011, 09:34 AM | #8 | ||
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I remember seeing him down the otways running down a road years ago.
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26-10-2011, 10:07 AM | #9 | |||
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Old man strength and endurance. That's the only explanation.
Some of these old boys have near superhuman strength.
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26-10-2011, 08:39 PM | #10 | |||
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27-10-2011, 02:21 PM | #11 | ||
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It freaks me out that people haven't heard of him too, but then, i grew up in colac, so he was a local AND a legend
Ripper bloke, would always have a yarn with you if he came through your work.
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27-10-2011, 04:16 PM | #12 | ||
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Australian History.......is that taught in school anymore.? Obviously not......Top bloke ....married a much younger woman too.
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27-10-2011, 04:52 PM | #13 | ||
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Haha! My lord brought back memories for me! I remember that when I was a kid.
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27-10-2011, 10:49 PM | #14 | |||
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He wasn't a fast runner, but he kept on running when the other guys slept.
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28-10-2011, 12:28 PM | #15 | ||
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He was a bit like a Forest Gump type runner, nothing special but he just kept going and going.
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29-10-2011, 03:58 PM | #16 | ||
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What a blast from the past this is. it was back in the early 1980s that the Sydney to Melbourne marathon was held.
As other have said Cliff would still be running at night while the other were tucked up in their campers. I remember heading south past the Wagga turnoff one night only to be confronted by Cliffs van trundling along doing about 5kph in front of me. I wont say what speed I was doing but some of the older truck drivers on here would remember what it was like back then. Al i could say was that it took about 10 years off my life, scared the crap out of me. Cliff is nearly as entrenched in folklore as Ned Kelly (well almost) |
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29-10-2011, 04:52 PM | #17 | ||
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i remember that well , i was 14 at the time . people in thier 30's couldnt keep up with him , some of them tried so hard they were urinating blood .
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29-10-2011, 05:06 PM | #18 | ||
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Didn't Cliffy marry twins back in the 90's?
He was a character. I had wondered what happened to him. Never knew he had died. He really was a true Australian Character. |
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29-10-2011, 05:10 PM | #19 | ||
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I remember, it was the top story on the news, that image of an old man, shuffling along in the middle of the night, sporting gum boots. I forget how many pairs of boots he went through to win the race. Any one remember?
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29-10-2011, 05:12 PM | #20 | ||
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he run's when your asleep...
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29-10-2011, 07:44 PM | #21 | ||
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Yup definate not your average potato farmer...
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29-10-2011, 08:15 PM | #22 | |||
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How could anyone NOT know about Cliff Young?
I tend to remember the horrific accidents this stupid Sydney to Melbourne run used to cause on the “old road” when I was a young bloke in the passenger seat of a semi in those days.
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30-10-2011, 10:27 AM | #26 | ||
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Phew. I thought I was going bonkers when I saw the thread title thinking I was in a Twilight Zone episode (no, not the fruity movie with the girly vampires) since the guy passed in ~2003(?)
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30-10-2011, 06:27 PM | #28 | ||
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And that "young" woman he married was a rather friendly girl to................
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