When the topic of "historically important" road races comes up in conversation, there are a few sure fire North American events that need to be mentioned, the Boston Marathon, Around the Bay, The Peach Street Road Races, but there is one event, unfairly, that seems to get left out. An event that, in it's heyday, attracted the likes of Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Ron Hill, Jerome Drayton, just to name a very select few. This racing event was not in a major centre, it wasn't on roads that were pin straight,flat and prone to wicked fast times, but through a park with grinding hills in what was Canada's tenth largest city, London Ontario. This week on the Terminal Mile, we look at the legend of The Springbank International Road Races with special guests Bill Rodgers, Steve Hoag, Steve Weiler and John Loney.
Source : Trackie Radio