England Vs Ireland Half Marathon Challenge.

Well after a full weekend of pestering from Kanser down in Canberra it has now come to a crunch that there will be an England vs Ireland Half Marathon Challenge to be run at the Sydney Half in May. This will work by taking your Top 5 runners from either Ireland or England with the lowest aggregate time deemed the winners. All runners must be or have run with the current HuRTS team over the past 6 months or so to qualify.
The losers will be forced to buy drinks at the post race celebrations for a duration of 90 minutes. you can have as many members in the team but only the top 5 will count.
Already the Irish boys are up to there old tricks, team captain Enda has already tried to get in John Bartles on the bases he owns a Irish Wolfhound Dog , as well as J.Fenton who has the whole collection of 'The Nolans' CDs:)
To cap it all i then get a phone call from Kanser who tells me he wants to fly in 'BeerMat' from Ireland, and might ask Robbie Neal as well.... ???? Next I'll be asked if Brendan Foster can be included..... Bloody hell,  :)
Us Brits on the other hand, have no selection issues - with ALL frequent HuRT trainers, and can boast, Half Marathon winners, Striders winners, 6ft Track Winners and even a Biathlon winner within the ranks so i think we should be OK :)

Look forward to the lead up now for the big day, stay tuned as i am sure there will be some dirty underhand tactics from the 'Green Men'
There will also be prestigious trophy up for grabs as well - we will be running for the "Churchill/Bobby Sands" trophy awarded to the victors :)

Cheers
Some of the Irish Team Members.

Surely this motley crew has to be joking ???????????


Cheers