City2Surf

these race organizers need to start looking at that as a completely different race rather than the little brother of the marathon.

Well, yeah, you've got the Hocker half, like Sydney's got the Hocker half, now the Parramatta half, and you've got other shorter distance races like City to Surf and whatnot away from the Sydney Marathon day.

Yeah.

yeah it's it's tough because again it's still gonna it's still gonna cost heaps of money

Probably just my family like, no, I'm going for it.

I'm going to win City to Surf this year.

I'm going to run 208.

I'm going to – I was probably just – I was a bit – yeah, I was getting overexcited, but I was like super motivated.

I just want to keep this going now into next year.

Yes, definitely.

Yeah, you had a few good lead-in races as well, fourth at City to Surf and second at City Bay was really cool too because that's such a competitive race in Adelaide.

It gave me heaps of confidence.

Did

you do the recent City to Surf? Oh, the Bridge to Brisbane, yes.

I keep forgetting you're from Brisbane, of course.

Yeah, I did the Bridge

Now, family member, group chat, something like that, it's the same information more or less, but you're asking for support.

What do you think? Do you have any advice? What do you reckon about this? When we were running the City to Surf with Ned earlier in the year, Ned's mom Kylie was at the starting line, and I asked her, we're gonna ask all these students to sign up, what's your top piece of advice for students? And what if their parents are worried that they're getting uncomfortable or they're taking their focus off their studies? And Kylie said, to do it anyway, because it's only when you test yourself that you find out what you're really made of.

So the medium level here is, you take that text, you drop it in the family group chat.

You tell mom, you tell dad, you tell your auntie, you tell your uncle, hey, I'm doing this thing, what do you think? Now, if someone loves and supports you, they're going to make sure you know what you're doing, but hopefully they'll also help you out.

And before that, a couple of weeks after winning the Great North Run in one hour and 34 seconds.

He also set the course record of 40:03 for Sydney's iconic 14-kilometer City to Surf, which still stands.

And in 1994, he won the Tokyo Marathon.

So that's just, if you're from overseas, if you're not in the Australian running community or you're not well-acquainted with Australian marathon running greats, Steve Moneghetti is a GOAT, and he was interviewing the other GOAT, Eliud.

And that was something I fully learned the hard way.

So when I finished footy, I did City to Surf, that 14K in Sydney.

Loved it.

Thought it was awesome.

I didn't make this year's, but I've got my name in the ballot again, hoping for next year, which will make number 20.

I've done, yeah, I've done the Sydney, I've done the Melbourne, Rotnest, City to Surf every year when they had the marathon, Perth marathon.

I've done all of them.

Yeah.

Uh, so I've got a mate that's done something similar, and we just absolutely give it to him.

So a few of our mates did the City to Surf.

Uh, I don't know if...

Have you done the City to Surf before, Shulk?

I have.

Yeah.