They all thought he was a crazy old farmer. At 61 and toothless, he showed up in overalls and galoshes over his work boots to run the world’s toughest race, from Sydney to Melbourne. Many feared that he would die trying.
Instead, he won against 150 world class athletes. He finiSHed the 875-kilometre race in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes. Not knowing that he was supposed to sleep during the race, he said when running throughout the race, he imagined that he was chasing sheep and trying to outrun a storm.
But the press was curious, so as he took his number 64 and moved into the pack of runners in their special, expensive racing outfit, the camera focused on him and reporters started to ask:
“Who are you and what are you doing?”
“I’m Cliff Young. I’m from a large ranch where we run sheep outside of Melbourne.”
They said, “You’re really going to run in this race?”
“Yeah,” Cliff nodded.
“Got any backers?”
“No.”
“Then you can’t run.”
“Yeah I can.” Cliff said.
And he did. Be inspired by Cliff Young the legend.
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