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Google legs burn at Balmoral
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Posted by Joel Lohrey, Recruiting Specialist
Each year for the last 7, the
Humpty Dumpty Foundation
has run a charity fun run called the Balmoral Burn. 2007 was the first year Google Australia entered a team in the race.
After an awesome dinner on Friday night, which raised well in excess of $400K for the charity, Sunday was race day!
Team Google
The Balmoral Burn is a 420 metre course up one of Sydney's steepest streets -
Awaba St. Balmoral
. As part of the corporate relay event we entered a team of four runners. The idea is that once the first runner makes it past the finishing line, the team number is radioed back to the bottom of the hill for the second team member to start.
In order to prepare for the race, we went on a training run last Thursday. I'm still not sure whether that was a positive thing or not - sometimes ignorance can really be bliss.
Unfortunately, we lost one of our brave team members (Tanya Cochran) to a calf strain during training and I swear, if the course was 5 metres longer, I would have ended up in hospital myself! This hill is seriously steep.
The Elite Men's invitational was won in a little over 1min 20 sec. With approximately 40 corporate teams in our event, our aim was simply to not come last.
Team Google was led off by our adventure racing star Guy Gibbs. Angela Lawrence took over, followed by me. Michael Fox brought up the rear. We managed to cross the line in 25th with a combined time of a little over 9 minutes. A pretty good job for a team of amateurs.
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