Claude and I are doing the City to Surf
a half marathon, 14km.
It has been raining all yesterday and
pouring during the night.
At 2 am, I got out of bed to go and
spray our raincoat with a water repellent.
We were at our meeting point at 7am.
It was very cold and windy.
grey sky, will it rain????
Gary, Warwick, Becky and I
the queue for the toilet.
Gary took of his jeans
and throw them in a tree.
People are ask to remove their upper layer of clothing,
and throw them on the side. Charities are collecting them.
But I don't think the poor will want those jeans.
Claude and I
Claude , me, Gary and Warwick
Gary and Becky, they are twin.
and off we go
more discarded clothing on the edges of the road.
As people get warm they discard, but only if you
have spare cloth on the truck going to Bondi as
we were told, Bondi was very windy and
bitterly cold......
along the way we had entertainment, music, dancing ....
some of the girl had smurf hand marks...a bit everywhere
At the bottom of Heat break Hill we caught up
with Helen and Liz
Bondi, we have arrived, we did it.
It took us more than 2 hours.
Not very good this year.
We did not practised as Claude has been sick.
Windy Bondi beach
In the pub for lunch
James and Warwick
some of our group. We were 13, but only 10 walkers
the other 3, James, Jo and Santa were our support crew.
They went with the bus straight to Bondi, with our
spare cloth and our food.
Becky and I showing off our medals
Becky showing our "Mall walkers flag"
Santa and Jo (Jo is Gary and Becky's mum)
waiting for the bus
our medals
That was not the end of the excitement....
We arrived home to discover that Claude
had lost the house keys.
I was so much looking forwards to a nice spa bath,
But we had to drive all the way to Jo
to get Shane set of keys.
We are lucky that he did not take them with him
as China is a bit far to go.
My beautiful Amelia.
She was fast asleep when we got there
and she woke up to see me in her room,
She said "grand ma"
It was lovely to hear.
She is still half asleep I think
A day to remember.
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