"... No sponsor, no fancy running equipment--he's in overalls and work boots. He won, setting a new record for the race, knocking almost 2 days off the old reco

"... No sponsor, no fancy running equipment--he's in overalls and work boots. He won, setting a new record for the race, knocking almost 2 days off the old record. ..." I saw Cliffy Young during that run. I was on a bus on the way to Canberra for school when we passed him going up a hill. The way he won was by taking very few rest stops, sleeping at most 2Hrs every 24. I'm pretty sure he had runners on but did train in gumboots at home.