AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
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And then there was one. With the dawn of 2021, I find myself in a strange position in The Herald newsroom the last person who was working in my department back in 1987 when I started here. When I came to the paper in August of that year from the Fort Frances Times in the heart of northwestern Ontario’s spectacular and well-named Sunset Country, I was 28 years old with seven years of newspaper experience under my belt covering sports and outdoors issues. I’d started my career three days before my 21st birthday and with no phone, it was the loneliest birthday ever.
Runner s Tribe
No Zatopek, but Tiernan Flies Australian Flag High to End 2020
Patrick Tiernan Breaks Australian record - 27:22.55.
By any measure, 2020 has been an ordinary year. So many of the sporting milestones which punctuate our calendar either went uncelebrated or, when they could proceed, were “celebrated” in eerie silence.
One Australian running tradition was maintained, however. The calendar year ended with a resounding performance at 10,000 metres, for which we must give grateful thanks to Patrick Tiernan.
For the first time in over 50 years, the annual Zatopek 10,000 metres races did not take place. Happily, they will instead be raced in January, 2021. But Tiernan found a December 10,000 race to run, at “The Track Meet”, in San Juan Capistrano, and was able to enjoy his own private celebration after setting an Australian record 27:22.55.