Liverpool Marathon 2008

[Kev]

LIVERPOOL is bidding to host an international marathon.

Planners would like to see a big race in the city every year, starting in 2008.

Talks are taking place for Liverpool to join the exclusive list of global marathon destin-ations, along with London, New York and Rome.

But city council leader Warren Bradley told a Culture Company public briefing that the viability would “depend on a window being found in the calendar”. continues (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=city%2Ds-marathon-to-return-in-08%26method=full%26objectid=18255204%26siteid=5006 1-name_page.html).....

[Paul D]

That would good wouldn't it? but I suppose until anything is officially announced I shall remain cautious.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi all

I am a big fan of the New York City marathon and I think it would be great if Liverpool could hold such a marathon. :celb (23):

By the way, a marathon runner I remember was Liverpool fireman Geoff Smith, who won the Boston marathon and placed second in the New York City marathon in the 1980's. A Google search reveals information on his running career (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Geoff+Smith%22+Liverpool+marathon+%22New+York %22). At the time he was apparently a student at Providence College, Rhode Island. I remember watching on TV the very dramatic finish of the 14th New York City Marathon in 1983 when Geoff was just pipped at the finish line by New Zealander Rod Dixon:

"Dramatic nine-second win in the New York Marathon Rod Dixon of New Zealand won the 14th New York City Marathon Sunday in 2:08:59, history's tenth fastest marathon time. Dixon passed second place finisher Geoff Smith of Liverpool, England in the final 385 yards of the race. Smith, running his first marathon, collapsed at the finish line with a time of 2:09:08. Dixon became the third person - beside four-time winner Bill Rodgers and two-time winner Alberto Salazar - to win the 26-mile-38-yard race, which drew 15,193 runners despite a steady rain."

Geoff now lives in Massachusetts, and is the father of three teenagers and a teacher at Normanden Middle School in New Bedford. In a 2005 interview in the Taunton (Mass.) Gazette, Geoff looks back on his marathon career. (http://www.tauntongazette.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14365283&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6)

Chris

[Gerry Jones]

LIVERPOOL is bidding to host an international marathon.

Planners would like to see a big race in the city every year, starting in 2008.

Talks are taking place for Liverpool to join the exclusive list of global marathon destin-ations, along with London, New York and Rome.

But city council leader Warren Bradley told a Culture Company public briefing that the viability would “depend on a window being found in the calendar”. continues (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=city%2Ds-marathon-to-return-in-08%26method=full%26objectid=18255204%26siteid=5006 1-name_page.html).....

Hi Kev; I was there too. Maybe at the next one we'll meet in person.
I was the one going on about making it LIVERPOOL culture rather than "international" and getting shot down by the Brummie and her Friend who insist on "balance"

Gerry (Liver Bird) Jones