Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 free october i1si1tim qne4egged athlete invited to join High ouers in Japan of flee press v j Lundie turns a mile in less than five minutes when not studying at red River College at marathoner John Lundie trains six Days a 20 to 25 Miles a by Sheila bean world class wheelchair Marath Oner John Lundie says losing his leg to cancer May have been the Best thing that Ever happened to i was a sports it was hard losing my leg at but now i think its the Best thing that happened to who came to Winnipeg from the Pas years is a student at red River Community College and an exceptional on legged unbeatable since placing first in the Montreal Marathon 13 and second in the Manitoba Marathon june he has been invited to Japan for the mile Fukuoka Marathon in late octo Only two other Rick Hanson of Vancouver and Mel Fitz Gerald of have been invited to compete in the event and Lundie is confident the canadians will be first across the finish i dont think theres anyone else in the world that can beat Rick and he that includes runners and both runners and wheelchair con tenders cover the course but they dont compete against each Lundie said runners and 22 wheelchairs competed in Montre Woof us wheelchair Guys beat the first he undies time in Montreal was two seven minutes and 12 averaging four minutes and 51 seconds a he beat his previous Best time of the fastest time for a runner so far is he Lundie said the calibre of the Japa Nese Marathon is very its right up there with Boston and new he predicting a Good Competition Between the three Cana Mel was Only two minutes behind me in the Manitoba and i was Only two minutes behind said its Nice having three canadians being tops in the in going to try to beat Lundie said the wheelchair Mara Thon is becoming a More popular Spectator but it want always that when people think of wheelchair it definitely has a negative connotation from the former free press editor Dies at 87 people think its Good that were getting out and competing against each other and having a Good but were not taken but once they see us in a 26mile Marathon where were beating the people who Are out there originally to watch the runners take notice when they see How Well were once they see us in a 26mile Marathon where were beating the they take notice when they see How Well were doing were not Only getting out and beating each were beating the Best runners in the this is undies third year in mar athon Competition and he said his involvement sure started i trained pretty hard from the but it took me a Long time to get my times now in Defini Tely he finds it difficult to devote enough time to his which includes speeding around quiet City streets in warm if in doing i do 20 or 25 Miles a six Days a he sundays my hardworking because there Arent Many cars on Wellington Crescent or in ass inf Boine or i do Hill cold weather is a Winni Peg does not have an indoor track which will accommodate wheel its Boring in the use rollers in my he its like a i do to two hours on my rollers every i put on my headphones and listen to the that when you have to learn to talk to yourself because its so he also lifts weights about three times a doing this plus doing All my Homework is pretty he plus i have a Lundie studies business administration at red he will graduate with a major in accounting in i had really Good Marks in my first my average was he that was when i want Mara thoning and i had More time to do his Marks Are still above he but his athletics have taken their his final exams last year ended two Days before the Manitoba so his training lost leg in 1974 exams and training for marathons dont compliment each he Lundie lost his right leg to cancer in his chemotherapy treat ments ended six years ago and the cancer Hast once youre past five your Odds of getting it again Are just the same As anybody he his leg was amputated at the hip shortly after the cancer was disco my knee was sore and i never thought anything of i was pretty athletic so i just thought id pulled i never went to the doctor until it was too Lundie participated in basketball and Badminton in High Lundie started out competing in track and Field which took him to the Panama games in Rio de in 1978 for discus and he was also Captain of the Canadian wheelchair basketball he was be cause he compete outside the Western in places other than North and South America the English Stoke Mandeville rules he and they bar amputees from competing in such games As the olympics for the physically you have to have something like be confined to a he Lundie is sponsored by life sport for his he goes through a pair of Curling gloves every race and his 10speed bicycle tires Cost Canadian wheelchair sports is sponsoring the trip to Japan for Hanson and Edwin Ted a former managing editor of the free died yesterday in he was Dafoe was born in Montreal in the son of editor chief of the free press from 1901 to he joined the free press in 1910 As a printers Devil and spent More Ihan 50 years in the papers newsroom As Telegraph and Cable news editor and managing he served overseas in the first world War with the lord Strathcona horse after two years in trans weather temperature comparisons l Low cold front worm front Winnipeg area forecast Cloudy this morning with sunny intervals in the afternoon and a High near a few Clouds tonight with a Low near Cloudy tomorrow then mainly sunny with a brisk South wind and a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba Cloudy with occasional showers Satur Day and frequent sunny periods tempera Tures near Normal readings of 15 and 3 saturday but below Normal sunday and Northern Manitoba Cloudy with occasional showers Satur mainly Cloudy sunny periods temperatures near Normal readings of 9 and 0 below Normal sunday and Northwestern Ontario mainly Cloudy with occasional show ers temperatures near Normal readings of 14 and 4 saturday and below Normal temperatures Canada and the world feared to the Royal flying during the second world he served with the Manitoba Reserve veterans guard of he was appointed managing editor of the Regina Leader Post in 1944 and returned to Winnipeg to serve As Man aging editor of the free press until he retired from the paper in Dafoe is survived by his a of and a William Zeigler of our mistake a Story tuesday wrongly quoted Greg monks As saying that the downtown businessmen association had helped fund an archaeological dig in Bonnycastle the whose actual name is the downtown Winnipeg made no such a Story monday said wrongly that half the students of Bertrun Glavin elementary school in Valley gardens came from Vietnam and other asian in Only about 10 per cent of the students come from asian As the Story said similar to the one built at were built at Hampstead and Besant in they were built at Hampstead and Mcleod elementary Western express five tickets Worth each and five Worth each were picked in the 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