Charlie Spedding Lecture - From Last to First
10th Mar 2012 @ 17:30
- Venue
- Creative Lounge
- Premiere
- Yes
- Tickets
- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
From Last to First
Charlie will talk about his running career and how it took him16 years to make it to the Olympic team, but how he then won a medal! He will explore how changing his circumstances and his mindset made all the difference to his career after more than a decade of being only quite good. He will talk about what it is like in the Olympic village and to compete in an Olympic race.
With kind support from New Balance and Accelerate who will be donating a pair of New Balance Road Shoes
Some background from Wikipedia on Charlie:
Charles ("Charlie") Spedding (born May 19, 1952 in Bishop Auckland, County Durham) is an English former long-distance runner. He was fourth in the 10,000m at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and was England’s Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) 10,000m champion in 1983 in a time of 28:08.12. His first marathon was the Houston Marathon in 1984, which he won by "the thickness of a vest".
Spedding followed this up by winning the London Marathon in 1984 and the bronze medal for Great Britain in the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States, finishing just 2 seconds behind silver medallist John Treacy. Although it was the first British Olympic marathon medal for 20 years, and the last won by Britain (male or female), the performance was one of 16 British medals in athletics that year, and it possibly didn't get the recognition it deserved.
In 1985 he set a PB and English Marathon record of 2:08.33 when he finished second behind Steve Jones in the London Marathon. He remains the second fastest British marathon runner after Jones. In 1987, he finished 8th in the London Marathon in 2:10.32. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing 6th. He is a pharmacist by trade. In September 2009, he published an autobiography of his running career called From Last to First.
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