Our last full day in Sydney was a productive one, yet crazy rushing from one place to another.
Ben and I put our heads for radio to good use and had an interview with 2SSR 99.7FM in the morning. We chatted about the run and about how breast cancer had affected someone close to each of us. Line of the day would be Ben opening with "In today's society...". Classy.
We then whipped down to Wollongong to meet up with Joelo and do a TV piece for WIN, a regional TV station. We answered some questions, ran around the oval, posed and did stretches for the cameraman for about 10 minutes, which Joel mentioned was longer than he usually stretches for anyway...Should be on WIN's 6.30pm news tomorrow (Friday) night.
Lastly, the Leader (another local newspaper) took a few snaps of us at Cronulla (our finish line!) for an article which will be in next Tuesday's paper. We also mananged a few of our own photos when we saw Paul Gallen and the mighty top try-scoring centre for the Cronulla Sharks Ben Pomeroy walk by. Asking Gal to take a photo of us with Ben Pomeroy was priceless-Pomeroy was absolutely stoked! And Gal took it well, he was graceful in defeat as always.
We also received the last of Saucony gear from Joel, which means we can all use tonight to pack, prepare and gear up for the long van trip down to Melbourne tomorrow. Ben has already called dibs on driving it before all of us, which is fine by me as long as I get the large Double Bed...we'll see how that all pans out tomorrow-might be some scissor paper rock action going on. We will arrive tomorrow night and use Saturday as a rest day (or hopefully having a "team bonding" session watching the footy at the MCG) and then start the trek back up the Hume on Sunday morning. We kick off from Federation Square at 7am if anyone from Melbourne cares to join us.
Donations are still going great guns, with the website showing $15,758.73 to be exact...and don't forget that we have around $4000 waiting to be included from the poker day and the Pink high school day (another big thanks to Dan Peyton and Sam Bartlett respectively for those). We are getting closer to our target of $35,000, so please help out if you can...www.gofundraise.com.au/page/runforareason
With all these events going on it makes me want to get out on the road and just start running, because the build up has been intense-we better finish the bloody thing after all of this or we'll look like geese.
Once again, we plan to update everyone via the blog daily, so stay tuned for more. And please spread the word!!
Cheers,
Nick
Ben and Nick (and a photoshopped Joel) at 2SSR.
The boys
Being interviewed by WIN
Posing and stretching for WIN
Photos for the Leader at Cronulla
Ben Pomeroy supporting the run...the best part about this photo is that Paul Gallen is taking it!
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