![]() 12, 1987, on the deck of their home in New Zealand. ![]() The next year, Roger taught at New York University and had the opportunity to stay, but he has two children and grandchildren in New Zealand. In 1985, Avon ended its running series and Kathrine decided to free-lance and live in New Zealand. “It is a great thing to say, but in reality, one of the persons will feel, ‘I gave up everything,'” Kathrine says. Both having been married before, “We knew it would be a mistake for either to give up our lives and careers.” … The issue was not the seriousness of our relationship, but where” they could live, Roger says. ![]() “We kept seeing each other when we could. Kathrine had stopped competing because of injuries in the mid-1970s, but she was the lead commentator when Roger came down the home stretch of the 1984 Boston Marathon to break the Master’s record. In October 1983, Kathrine returned to New Zealand for the Avon race and hired Roger as the race announcer. and Canada to compete, and the two crossed paths again. He was a professor and dean of faculty at Victoria University of Wellington Kathrine served as director of Sports and Public Relations at Avon, pioneering two series of women’s races and managing Avon’s numerous tennis, figure skating, equestrian and track championships.Ī few months after the runners met, Nike brought Roger to the U.S. “Writing a letter is an amazing thing, especially with somebody who is poetic,” as Roger was. “He was so great.” They talked for hours afterward.īut with Kathrine living and working in New York and Roger in Wellington, New Zealand, a relationship was “geographically undesirable,” she says. “I fell in love at first voice,” Kathrine says.
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