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Pink Lads Run

An extreme physical and mental test will occur in a continuous running team from the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) over the New Year period. The runners will be confined to live on a mini bus with no facilities except for a seat for a period of four days while they run from the MCG to the SCG to promote the awareness of breast cancer on behalf of the McGrath Foundation. The runners are well known sportsmen from various sporting backgrounds and will have to use every single lesson they have learned during their sporting careers to survive the mental and physical test of sleep depravation, no comfortable facilities for eating, sleeping and showering, at the same time being able to continuously back up and run ten kilometres every seven hours over four days in varying climatic conditions. The challenge is a true test of "sporting ability, prowess and mental toughness" with the intention to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation nurses.  An added factor is that the runners will be on the bus over the New Year celebratory period further testing their mental strengths away from their regular "comfort zones". The only exception to leave the bus will be to run or for a nature stop! Should a runner decide to withdraw from the challenge he will then place added responsibilities on the other runners to cover the additional running klms. Big Brother on a bus, here we come!

The planned challenge is over 1000klms and commences at the tea break on the fourth day of the Boxing day test at the MCG which will start with a single group lap of the oval and then exit out onto the route towards Sydney via the Hume Highway, Albury, Wagga, Canberra and Parliament House, M5,M4, Penrith, M7,M2, Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Sydney CBD and then Anzac Parade with the runners taking turns of ten klms each continuously until they reach the Sydney Cricket Ground on Day three, Jane McGrath Day, around lunch time to complete a single group lap to complete the run. The team will then assist with fund raising activities for the McGrath Foundation during the afternoon session of the test.

The running uniform will be a pink shirt embossed with the McGrath Foundation Logo and the words "Stop and Donate" as depicted in the photos below. Runners and support members will have pink donation buckets and bottles and will be collecting funds along the course.

Visit us at  http://pinklads.blogspot.com for all the updates and webcam etc.

Itinerary:

29-30/12/09 Leave Sydney 10am from Cronulla and travel to Melbourne

30-31/12/09 Depending on result of Last test at MCG arrive at MCG day five and then commence run at 10am spending New Years Eve on the road

1/1/10 New Years day run to Albury via Hume Hwy

2/1/10 Run from Albury via Wagga to Gundagai

3/1/10 Run from Gundagai via Canberra/Parliament House to Goulburn

4/1/10 Run from Goulburn to M4 intechange then to Penrith

5/1/10 Run from Penrith to the SCG via the Harbour Bride to arrive at SCG at 10 or 12midday, then complete final lap at Sydney Cricket Ground. Upon completion of this runners and team members will then mingle into the crowd and collect donations from spectators etc. 

Date:

29 Dec 2009 - 05 Jan 2010

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