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Go The Extra Mile is an organisation that runs a series of 50 km walks to raise money for charity. As they are my neighbours I somehow have ended up taking photos on the last three or four Melbourne events. Saturday May 5 was the 2012 Melbourne walk so here is the flavour of the day.
5.20 AM and the light tower has been fired up and the overnight sleepers have opened up the tents and started preparations
Just before the 7AM start. The 330 registered walkers raised $67,000!
The start (Superman is 60 years old btw)
About 35km in and you are getting to the top of the "thousand stairs". This is around stair 720 but most weren't interested to know that there are actually only about 751 stairs and yes they are incredibly slippery and on about a 30 degree slope in this section.
Of course once you get to the top of the stairs that is not the top of the hill
but just before the summit there are some trusty volunteer marshals with a smile, a word of encouragement and lollies.
At 2.06PM the winners arrived (yes Superman was in the winning group after two years of coming second)
to the finishers the spoils (?)
and when I left shortly after 4PM this is what the conditions were like for the 290 odd walkers who were still on the trail.
5.20 AM and the light tower has been fired up and the overnight sleepers have opened up the tents and started preparations
Just before the 7AM start. The 330 registered walkers raised $67,000!
The start (Superman is 60 years old btw)
About 35km in and you are getting to the top of the "thousand stairs". This is around stair 720 but most weren't interested to know that there are actually only about 751 stairs and yes they are incredibly slippery and on about a 30 degree slope in this section.
Of course once you get to the top of the stairs that is not the top of the hill
but just before the summit there are some trusty volunteer marshals with a smile, a word of encouragement and lollies.
At 2.06PM the winners arrived (yes Superman was in the winning group after two years of coming second)
to the finishers the spoils (?)
and when I left shortly after 4PM this is what the conditions were like for the 290 odd walkers who were still on the trail.
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