Khamsin Warrior: Trackwork Star

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Trackwork Star

Gerald has KW maintaining peak fitness on the sand track at Rosehill. He worked over 1200m on both Monday and Thursday last week. On Monday he recorded 1.24.07 (last 600m in 37.91) and on Thursday ran the fastest 1200m of the morning on that surface by over 3 seconds in recording 1.22.84 (38.86).

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About the Name

"Khamsin" is Arabic for "fifty" and is the name given to the hot, strong, violent winds that sweep across the Sahara Desert from Libya and Egypt for about 50 days each year.

In 'Khamsin' by Clinton Scollard he says about the wind,

'It blasted the buds on the almond bough,
And shrivelled the fruit on the orange tree'
'The tiny fledgling died in the nest;
The sick babe gasped at the mother's breast.
Then a rumour rose and swelled and spread
From a tremulous whisper, faint and vague,
Till it burst in a terrible cry of dread,
The plague, the plague, the plague.
Oh the wind, Khamsin,
The scourge from the desert, blew in'

There is also a "Maserati Khamsin" Italian sports car