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It was City2Surf time of the year again last week. A fun run event in Sydney, Australia, usually held in the second Sunday of August every year. Sydney threw another glorious day for the event to be held. This was my third time to run it, but I know for a fact that this fun run had been held on a perfect day for the last four years...

Around 60,000 heads turned up, 50,271 officially finished the 14km run from the City of Sydney to the shores of Bondi Beach.

The photo below was taken by a 2 megapixel mobile phone camera: the Sony Ericsson K750i. I was in the midst of the "Back of the Pack" - that is the group that gets to run last... out of four groups - there are staggered starts to space the people out.

There is always a sense of positive energy throughout the day and people always have a good attitude on the day.

The photo below is the last turn into Bondi after running some 13.75km's.

If you are ever in Sydney during this time of the year, or even better - if you are a Sydneysider, you should definitely give the City2Surf a go. You can run, jog or even walk at your own pace if you want.

I keep coming back to experience the atmosphere. And to beat my previous personal best. This time I did 5 minutes better at 104.10 minutes. I'm yet to break the 100 minute mark.

The finish line after crawling some 14kms

According to http://city2surf.sunherald.com.au/

The place winners of the 35th Sun Herald City2Surf are:

WOMEN
1. Kerryn McCann 46.27
2. Lisa Jane Weightman 48.40
3. Lauren Shelley 49.02
4. Melissa Moon 50.13
5. Liz Miller 50.32

MEN
1. Patrick Nyangelo 41.12
2. Dickson Marwa 41.15
3. Martin Dent 41.19
4. Stephen Monghetti 41.34
5. Simon Field 42.20

According to my calculations, 14 kms in 41 minutes and 12 seconds means that Patrick Nyangelo ran the Sydney City2Surf at 20.38 km's per hour! Putting that in perspective, my mountain bike has an odometer that clocks my average speed (riding comfortably that is) on a nice even level paved road at around 21 kms per hour!

This is the view of Bondi (The finish line to Sydney's City2Surf from the Southern end.

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