John Nunn regarding Bonsall told you those people terminology, which he typed with the his restroom mirror two months ago – accompanied by Olympic rings drawn of the their 7-year-old daughter, Ella – and they have left him worried about his primary goal.
Which is what the 33-year-old, whom averages nearly 100 battle taking walks miles each week, performed to the Weekend before a tiny however, saturated crowd from supporters inside Santee.
A late-battle surge powered Nunn over fellow San Diegan Tim Seaman, a 39-year-old a couple of-date Olympian, about 20K length, exactly who finished in cuatro: (7:55 rate).
The top around three finishers from the examples would be to feel entitled to the You.S. Olympics people, however, on condition that they wandered the brand new Olympics “A” level of 3:59.
This new race’s solitary females competition, Erin Taylor-Talcott, who had been not entitled to the fresh Olympics because there is zero 50K battle stroll experiences for women – simply an effective 20K is available for women – accomplished sixth out of twelve race walkers within the 4:, an enthusiastic 8:forty-eight rate
Nunn, yet not, featured none as well happy to give up, and you can provided a powerful stop at the bottom to help you profit
“We remaining telling myself which i like the fresh new 50K,” said Nunn, who decided to go to the fresh Olympics into the 2004 in the 20K, and finished in 26th place. “Ella is actually 6 months old whenever i went into the ’04 and you can she did not remember things. We have chatted about it a lot subsequently. The fresh 20K goes plenty less than the 50K. It’s a totally additional beast. We have read to enjoy it.”
Nunn and you can Seaman was basically part of a young package of five you to resided contained in this several paces of a single several other for more than simply half of brand new race, and therefore got walkers 40 times around a 1 
.25-kilometres oval track that went along Mast Boulevard near to Santana Higher. Continue reading Nunn won a visit to London after in 2010 shortly after winning new You
