 fullsize The inside of 40 Cafe in Nimmitabel, a shrine to U2 if ever there was one. |
 fullsize However we were keen to try out the Funky Pies, Vegan pies that were awesome. |
 fullsize Even the menus had a U2 theme. |
 fullsize Zoe was there to support Tall Geoff. |
 fullsize David at the race briefing. |
 fullsize David almost ready for bed after preparing food and kit. |
 fullsize Shoes and kit bags ready to go. |
 fullsize A fridge full of a lot of supplies. |
 fullsize Baldy on the Beach |
 fullsize Dave with Chris, the other support crew member. |
 fullsize Dave and I. |
 fullsize Zoe talking to Dave pre start. |
 fullsize Team photo. |
 fullsize All the runners lining up for the start photo. |
 fullsize Ready to go |
 fullsize And they are off, Jo and Sharon the eventual winners closest to camera. |
 fullsize 39 people about to punish themselves. |
 fullsize Race banner now lonely on the beach. |
 fullsize For the first 24km along Towamba Rd we passed runners but had to wait until 24kmk to stop and begin supporting them. There were aid stations set up for this section. |
 fullsize I took some photos as we drove along. |
 fullsize Finally with Dave after the aid station and he is running pretty strongly. |
 fullsize He said he was in a happy place settling into the race. |
 fullsize This is Nigel who was putting in a strong performance early on. |
 fullsize Jo Blake was out in front for the entire race, Dave and Nigel battled for 2nd for a while early on. |
 fullsize Running up a hill |
 fullsize Slowing briefly for a drink. |
 fullsize Chris busy writing what Dave is drinking, eating and any other notes for the entire event. I am sure this is a list Gramps would love to get hold of due to the level of detail here, though I suspect Julie will ensure it stays out of his wily hands. |
 fullsize More hills |
 fullsize Nigel and a support crew member. |
 fullsize Dave passing Nigel's support crew. |
 fullsize Chris running along with David, zoomed out to show the lush views along this country. |
 fullsize Lots of water in creeks and streams. |
 fullsize On bitumen almost for the first time in the race. We went up the road around 10 minutes to find Jo Blake running along. Stopped here to wait for Baldy. |
 fullsize Here comes Baldy and Chris. |
 fullsize Keeping the food intake going. |
 fullsize Back on dirt |
 fullsize Now running through some of the more lovely parts of the Towamba river valley. |
 fullsize Looking upstream. |
 fullsize Now back to the race. I started my mission to keep Baldy entertained with fancy dress. |
 fullsize I had worn a santa hat for a while earlier and he said thanks Santa so it was time for more variety. |
 fullsize Chris or I constantly were trying to ensure he ate and drank lots. |
 fullsize Dave was wearing a camelback filled with around 1L of water at a time. |
 fullsize Everything else we handed him at regular intervals. |
 fullsize More sports drink. |
 fullsize Chris running along for a while again. |
 fullsize Coming up to the river ford at the official marathon point (which is actually a few km past 42.2 km into the race) |
 fullsize The other support crew said they had never seen water running across this before. |
 fullsize Dave heading up the road still holding 2nd place. |
 fullsize I almost expected to find some snazzy 21st century glass tower here, I was however dissapointed. |
 fullsize Though the bridge that was here instead is pretty spectacular. |
 fullsize And crosses the river which is also pretty. |
 fullsize And here is Dave running past it all. |
 fullsize At David's bucks party he was encouraged to wear the black dress (I am using as a cape here) and the viking helmet out to dinner, so I got hold if it to bring some more grins to him. |
 fullsize Of course it may have just made me look silly, the Portugal pink apron was a new touch courtesy of Aaron's housemates. |
 fullsize We were about to hit the first checkpoint at Rocky Hall |
 fullsize Dave was still runnning awefully fast, he had passed his first marathon split in under 4 hours. |
 fullsize Paul the race director and volunteer Michelle. |
 fullsize Rocky Hall phone booth for the check in. |
 fullsize Dave passing the underwear fence |
 fullsize Quickly followed by the field of mannequins |
 fullsize Dave running past the mannequins |
 fullsize Pretty strange stuff to be found out in the middle of nowhere. |
 fullsize The last bit of downhill before a big climb. |
 fullsize The Towamba River crossing |
 fullsize Down the hill to the Towamba River crossing. |
 fullsize Starting his climb up Big Jack Mountain. |
 fullsize This is quite a climb |
 fullsize However it was lovely scenery and Dave said he was enjoying it a lot. |
 fullsize Long view |
 fullsize Closer |
 fullsize A small waterfall gully |
 fullsize Chris with Dave as he comes over the top of the Big Jack Mountain climb. |
 fullsize Changing shires. |
 fullsize And now out toward the open Monaro Plains |
 fullsize Onto bitumen again as we head toward Cathcart. |
 fullsize Nigel coming on to Mt Darrah Rd too. |
 fullsize He still looked fairly comfortable here. |
 fullsize Unfortunately for him he started to hurt and lose time not too long after this. |
 fullsize Nigel's support crew were still near by for a while. |
 fullsize As can be seen here not long before the 100km mark. |
 fullsize Back on the dirt for a while now. |
 fullsize It was rather hot and sunny out here so we were filling David's hat with ice and handing him bottles of iced water to cool off with often. |
 fullsize I tried another outfit change here. |
 fullsize Chris seemed to find them entertaining. |
 fullsize Big open vistas on the plains. |
 fullsize Running down toward David to hand him drinks. |
 fullsize More views around the plains. |
 fullsize Running up the hill with Baldy as we passed 100 km on the GPS. |
 fullsize Dave was still running along very comfortably here |
 fullsize He had stopped and popped a blister around 20km earlier and would soon do another one. |
 fullsize Here we are at the dead tree at 102km that all C2K runners know about. |
 fullsize Chris running down to Dave |
 fullsize And now running past the tree. Dave did his first 100km in around 11 hours which was moving pretty fast. |
 fullsize Nigel running to the tree |
 fullsize And walking past his support crew. |
 fullsize Dave coming up on some cows. |
 fullsize The cows were not supposed to be on the roads, however a fence had gone down somewhere. |
 fullsize Julie appeared to join in the support and was bearing pizza. |
 fullsize Nigel passing as we sort out how to operate with Julie along for the ride too. |
 fullsize Julie joined in the running to keep Dave motivated and ran most of the rest of the race with him (she did around 90 km of running in the end) |
 fullsize Chris and I did a car drop at Dalgetty and I thought the sheep on the corner in the main street was unusual enough to warrant a photo. |
 fullsize Jo Blake and supprt crew around 10km up the road from David. |
 fullsize David finally walking the odd hill or two. |
 fullsize Though I am sure Julie helped keep him going most of the time. |
 fullsize Getting later in the day he was still moving well. |
 fullsize I thought it was time for another outfit. |
 fullsize Julie and Dave enjoying a run together as they do so often. |
 fullsize Making sure Dave eats more. |
 fullsize Though he kept moving at all times only stopping for blister popping and some clothes changes and toilet moments. |
 fullsize Camelback refills happened whenever he drank it dry. |
 fullsize |
 fullsize I liked this image as it showed the view we had as support crew fairly often. |
 fullsize Running on into dusk. |
 fullsize Still on the Monaro plains, it is not until after Dalgetty that they are left behind |
 fullsize Just on dark |
 fullsize The reflective vests really do work well. |
 fullsize Dave running into the night |
 fullsize Usually accompanied by Julie |
 fullsize Food and clothes at Dalgetty |
 fullsize Julie probably suggested the photo of the frog. |
 fullsize I left for 2 hours sleep in Jindabyne so handed the camera to Chris. |
 fullsize This and the next few photos probably need a NSFW tag or some sort of warning. |
 fullsize Puffy lamented the fact that when he and Velkro supported Flyer in 2007 there was no Nudity. Baldy even noticed there was a full moon out. |
 fullsize He was rather intent on fixing that this time around when he came to visit Baldy. So intent was he that he lost his glasses in his haste to remove his kit. I hope he found them again. |
 fullsize Andrew Vize managed to pass David just before Jindabyne |
 fullsize Here are Andrew and his crew passing thredbo river. |
 fullsize Dawn on the way up toward sawpit. |
 fullsize A rather lovely looking morening, though cold and windy. |
 fullsize Here is Gordi and his crew a little while before catching David. |
 fullsize I did go for a few more outfits through the morning, however Chris was off getting some sleep so they will have to live on in Baldy and Julie's memories. |
 fullsize Julie and David near wilsons valley. |
 fullsize And now we can see Gordi and crew in the background. |
 fullsize David was hurting a lot now and had slowed a lot too. |
 fullsize Still he was on a mission and was absolutely going to finish no matter what happened. |
 fullsize Gordi's crew running ahead with orders of food. Dave and Julie are blurry about to pass the guthega turn off. |
 fullsize Up the hill toward Smiggins. |
 fullsize Still moving forward focused on the finish. |
 fullsize He was still getting into a shuffle a bit despite the cold and pain. I think maybe we should have fed him somre more pain killers. |
 fullsize We did not realise until the descent off Kosci how sore his feet were which could possibly have been dealt with a bit. |
 fullsize He was however still making himself go forward as fast as he could and keping a strong consistent pace. |
 fullsize Here is Sharon just after passing through Perisher Valley. |
 fullsize Chris, Julie and David on the plain after Eyre T-Bar. |
 fullsize Sharon with her support crew moving at a fast walk. |
 fullsize The lovely view down to the windy creek in the plain below Charlotte Pass. |
 fullsize Sharon passing David. |
 fullsize All of us heading out of Charlotte Pass to go to the summit with David. |
 fullsize Moving a bit slower than they normally do up this trail, however he has done a pretty impressive effort over the past 30 hours. |
 fullsize The weather had become a little less pleasant here. |
 fullsize Paul (on the bike) and Vince came up the trail with us for a while. |
 fullsize Gordi on his way down. |
 fullsize A strong performance from him as a first tim C2Ker. |
 fullsize Some random walkers out on the trail. |
 fullsize Sharon and her crew coming back down from the summit just before Rawsons Pass. |
 fullsize A happy moment for them, on target for breaking the womens record. |
 fullsize Dave as we are about to cross the snow drift. |
 fullsize Drinking hot chocolate I had prepared for him. |
 fullsize Julie and Dave at the summit. |
 fullsize Team photo at the summit. |
 fullsize Walking back down the path. |
 fullsize Chris was rugged up in an interesting manner trying to protect his face from the cold. |
 fullsize Danny Hooley and crew. |
 fullsize Crossing the Snowy River. |
 fullsize Darrel and team. |
 fullsize 3 km to the finish, Dave was getting a bit warm. |
 fullsize Though I think we all were, however it was easier to finish before removing clothes. |
 fullsize Kevin and his crew. |
 fullsize I finally decided to hand the camera over to chris for a photo or two |
 fullsize Largely because I could not believe I was running (however slowly) in so much clothing. Thermal top and leggings, windproof trousers and jacket. |
 fullsize Almost finished though. |
 fullsize And Dave was managing a reasonable sort of speed here all things considered. Impressive effort. |
 fullsize Lisa and crew. |
 fullsize Setting off for the last haul of the race. |
 fullsize Nigel on the last leg. |
 fullsize Running in to the CP finish. |
 fullsize Woohoo all done, Way to go Dave. |
 fullsize Congratulations from Julie. |
 fullsize This is what a hard man like Dave's feet look like after that punishment. |
 fullsize Many blisters needed to be fixed and lots of evidence of wear and tear. Also the swelling that became cankles is already evident. |
 fullsize Dave getting a congratulations hug from Paul. |
 fullsize Dave with his new Akubra |
 fullsize All the finishers of the 2010 C2K. |
 fullsize Sharon and Jo the winners of Female and Male at C2K. |
