Aussie wins race up Empire State Building

NEW YORK: Australian Suzy Walsham took up staircase running to win a trip to New York, and has captured the top prize after racing 1576 steps up the city's tallest skyscraper at the Empire State Building Run-Up.

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This is my colleague who's working 2 cubs away from me.. Marathon Champion !!! Wooo hooo.. Later got celebratory lunch....hee~

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Walsham broke the tape on the 86th-floor Observation Deck in 13 minutes, 12 seconds to beat American Cindy Moll-Harris, a four-times winner of the event, by 12 seconds.

Germany's Thomas Dold won his second successive race up the landmark building by 31 seconds over compatriot Jahn Mattias with a time of 10:25, to take the men's title. It was the 30th time the annual event had been run.

"I'm a novice. I'm a newcomer," said a beaming Walsham, a former Australian 1500 metres champion.

"I did my first stairway race last November in Singapore," said the Sydney native, who now works as an accountant in Singapore. "And I did it because the prize was a trip to come here. This is only my second stairs race ever."

Walsham, 33, said she has been running 80km per week. She improvised some training last week for the Empire race, which awards a trophy but no prize money.

"My Singapore condominium is 17 stories high and I live on the fifth floor, which is my only access to the stairwell," she said. "So I ran to the top, caught the lift back down and did that eight times. I did that twice before I came here.

The Australian said she was surprised how easily it went.

"It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, but a couple of minutes after I finished I started getting chest pains and I felt like I was going to throw up.

"And I thought 'I can't do that here in front of everyone!' Fortunately, I didn't."

There were 200 finishers in the race, 145 men and 55 women. The competitions, from 12 countries, climbed 320 metres.

Walsham said she was pleased to carry on the Empire success of Australian cyclist Paul Crake, who from 1999 won five successive sprints up the building. Crake was paralysed by a cycling accident last November in New Zealand.

"Australia has quite a good tradition here and it's an absolute tragedy the injury that Paul Crake had. So I'm thrilled to have kept up that tradition," she said.

Walsham won three days accommodations in New York with her Singapore victory, and has decided to stay on the rest of the week out of her own pocket.

Dold, however, was in a rush after his stairs sprint.

The 22-year-old said he was hurrying back to university

Gutsy Singapore lang~

Wahhh.. Double yellow lines begets double standards..

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(ED: I cut and paste the most @#!$@~%!#%!@#$@#$! para from the email)

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For Feb, 21, 22 and 23 Feb will need your extended support
Japan Team is working on Chinese New Year Holiday and would be helpful if can have phone support in case they have any urgency raised

China is on holiday that week hence not so much impact

For Mar, 19 Mar to 23 Mar; 26 Mar to 30 Mar will need extended support

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Then still got the "Japan Team is working on Chinese New Year Holiday and would be helpful if can have phone support"

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The love you threw away before
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i received this courteousy of a colleague who bought it en masse and distributed...

Gotten this off 1 of the Barflies

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