Marathon celebration for cricket carnival regular
RUNNING: If you expect Doc's XI batsman Darren Bodimeade to run out of puff going for a fourth run in the Condamine Sports Club Warwick Australia Day Cricket Carnival think again - late last year he ran 42.2km in New York.
Bodimeade has school cricket commitments with his family on Saturday in Brisbane but will be home in Warwick on Saturday night and Sunday for the 47th annual carnival.
He has played for more than two decades for Doc's XI, a team which won the carnival in 2011.
Late last year, Bodimeade turned 50 and headed to America with a group of 20, including eight runners, to celebrate a birthday with a few hours of strenuous exercise.
He completed the 42.2km in four hours, 26 minutes while his wife Kerri, who is originally from Texas, finished in 4:15.
Close mate Damien Windle was timed at 3:58 and another former Warwick student Janelle Mangan finished in 4:49.
"It was awesome to run in front of an estimated two million people who were cheering us all on,” Bodimeade said.
"The travel company we were with provided shirts with Australia printed on the shirt, it gave us a bit of an understanding of what it must be like to run in the Olympics.”
