Sunday 11th October staged a gorgeous day for the 2009 St George Melbourne Marathon.
Starting by the banks of the Yarra on Batman Avenue, Zeljko and Jason were the first to set off at 7am for their Marathon (42.1km) run. At 7.30am, myself, Charity, Glenn, Hunor, Chris, Ruth & Howard started our 10km race and were the first group to run to the finish line in the MCG around an hour later. 8am saw the half marathoners (21km) start and Ed, Caroline, Bryony, Adam, Jasna, Lorna and Tom made their way to Albert Park before merging with the returning Marathon runners on their way back to the MCG. At 10.30am whilst Jason and Zeljko were still out on their marathon course, Jen, Sam & Lilian set off for their 5km walk. We also had 9 friends of LP staff who ran various distances.
As a team, Lonely Planet performed extremely well with the following results:
Half Marathon - 7th out 24 (in the social category)
10k race - 8th out of 26 (in the social category)
We were even more excited about the true nature of this event – raising funds for the Angkor Children’s Hospital in Cambodia. We are proud to announce that with the Planet Wheeler Foundation’s matching contribution, we will be donating $14,547 to this children’s hospital. This is such an amazing result and we have you and all the runners’ family and friends to thank for this.
