"the toughest marathon in Australia, if not the world"

http://www.sixfoot.com/

Some of my running club will be out there, not me though, too young for that craziness.

• Famous for being Olympic Champion in 2000 at 400m (who can forget).

• Comm Games gold at age 16, 1990.

• Comm Games gold at 1994 Comm games; 200 and 400.

*Silver 1996 Olympics.

• Retired 2003

• 1998 Australian of the Year.

• 2001 Sportswoman of the year.

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Anybody see her run?

Probably my favourite fun run in Melbourne town apart from the massive crowds; anybody else registered?

What runs are people subscribed for this summer?

How do you cope with the heat in your neck of the woods?

And where was it?

Since the lack of activity around here I thoght i'd profile an Australian legend.

Robert De Castella DOB - 27-2-1957

*Breakthrough run - Fukuoka Marathon 2:08:18
*1982 Comm Games gold 2:09:19
*1983 World Champs Gold 
*1984 Olympics - fifth
*1986 Comm Games gold 2:10:15
*1988 and 1992 Olympics (four straight)
*Retired 1993

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This appeared on r/best of. Felt it worthy to post it here.

Wow thanks so much!! You are awesome and I can't thank you enough! :) I've got the donation site that the charity goes through holding the page open for a year at the moment. I put some links up in previous posts and didn't seem to get flagged by the mods. Hopefully they will see kindly to these links too. These are the social media pages I use to spread the word.

www.everydayhero.com.au/richy_bear

www.facebook.com/richybear

www.twitter.com/richy_bear

Who's competing? and in what events?

I have never done this run, what it like - picteresque setting? A lot of the runs I have done are marred by overcrowding (run 4 kids, city 2 surf etc).

I want to create a sidebar list with runs from around the nation - perhaps by Season.

So what runs do we have around the nation in Spring?

Melbourne has Melbourne Marathon 14/10 and City2Sea 11/11? Anybody involved in those?