A KENDAL woman and her son caught Olympic fever when a torch relay passed their Burneside Road home.
When Amanda Oversby, 35, and her son Grayson, two, noticed a man run past their window with a flaming torch last Wednesday, her thoughts immediatley turned to next summer.
But what Amanda did not realise was that it wasn’t a test run for the Olympic torchbearer’s route next year – but just one leg of the ‘World Harmony Run’, in which a torch relay is traversing the globe to spread a message of goodwill.
She said: “I saw the man stop to tie his shoe laces and I had to ask for a picture with the torch.
"He came back and told us he was part of a relay running from John O’Groats to Land’s End.
"I had to phone all the family to tell them. It was still very exciting.”
The World Harmony Run will be making its way through the UK until July 2 – but despite it not being an Olympic relay, it has ignited the Oversbys’ passion for the London Games.
Amanda said she could hardly wait for the real torch relay to visit Bowness next June.
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