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| Gaffy earns his breakfast in Mount Oval |
With half a mile to go in this six mile bodycruncher it looked like it was all over for A-Nug! His early lead of about 2 and a half miles was whittled down to a mere couple of yards as the challenger came flailing down the final descent like a hovercraft. In his familiar style with his nose just inches off the tarmac the man in pursuit was teetering on the fine line that was now being drawn in the proverbial sand: sweet success at the death or a bad case of anteroposterior road rash cos it looked at this stage that he wasn't even capable of slowing down like! But that he did as these two giants of the road were greeted by a final climb where every last stride felt like a right good kick in the guts! In a race beswiddled by controversy with some elite runners actually taking a wrong turn Nugent brazened it out blarney style to take the crown in 44.07 but not before being overtaken by a girl and getting a bit sick on the grass. 21 seconds later his counterpart hurtled over the line like a plane skidding off a runway knocking over everything in his path as the motor neurons in his legs began to take a few wrong turns of their own! Race results
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