This week we have been heavily involved in choosing our Crew name. Crew prepared and delivered presentations to promote their suggestions – Magellan, Knox-Johnson, McGregor, Tenzing and Columbus – but we finally voted for Crew Young.
“I like to finish what I start doing. I like to see it through to the end, to the best of my ability.”
Our Crew took the name Young in honour of Cliff Young, a 61 year-old Australian potato farmer who:
- entered the Westfield ultra-marathon in 1983, running from Sydney to Doncaster in Melbourne (Australia) in his gumboots, against all the world’s lycra-clad top athletes.
- didn’t realise that accepted practice amongst competitors was to run for 18 hours per day and sleep for six hours a day – he just carried on running for over a week without stopping or sleeping!
- wasn’t even aware that there was a cash prize for the winner of $10,000 Australian, which motivated the competitors to run even faster.
- shared the prize money amongst the other runners when he came in first.
This astonishing hare-and-the-tortoise story is absolutely true….and inspires our Crew to come at things from another angle, to try things that nobody else has even considered before, to innovate and to motivate us to become true pioneers and explorers. Mr Pearson.