If you thought running nine kilometres in the Griffith heat was hard… well you were probably right.
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But for this year’s City2Lake, Star FM’s Carly and Dane have taken it to another level.
In an effort to raise money for St Vincent’s Private Community Hospital, the pair will dance, sing and least of all run their way to the finish line.
They raised $700 from the effort but aren’t too sure how they’ll cope come Sunday.
“We've done a big goose egg of training for nine kilometres of running,” Dane said.
“That wheelbarrow kilometre is going to be the hardest.”
Carly was looking forward to running a good time before she got roped into the action.
“I said to Dane that I can't muck around, I've got to be serious about this run,” she said.
“It then got to the last minute and I hadn't done an ounce of training.
“I wasn't going to make a good time so I thought I might as well join in with Dane.”
She’ll don a St George Dragons suit for the first kilometre while she tries to lead a blind Dane.
At $50 a pop (or more in a couple cases) people and businesses were lining up to suggest an idea.
Dane talked us through a few of the different running styles.
“We've got blindfolded for OPSM, I'm running with a fire extinguisher for Ryan Fire Protection, running backwards for Snap on Tools, running with all the Telstra store stuff including foam fingers, wheelbarrow for a listener, running for Hanwood Butchery singing their jingle, possibly high heels, I'm dancing for a kilometre for the council and for the last kilometre I'll have the styrofoam bikini,” he said.
At the end of it all he’ll either cartwheel or forward roll over the finish line then go for a quick dip in Lake Wyangan.
The new nine kilometre course starts at 8am from the Campbell Street entrance of Jubilee Oval and ends at the picnic area at Lake Wyangan.
Manual registrations close at 4pm today (Friday) while online registrations close at noon on Saturday, March 5.
