Riaan kicked the day off with a quick ten kays before attending an emotional hospital visit to a Pretoria Leukeamia Ward, where he, Tarryn and Peter, met with patients who are being treated for blood cancers, and some waiting with no matching bone marrow donor.
Riaan later returned to complete his portion of todays run in the heat of the day, with tempratures exceeding 35 Celcius. This was tough going as is evident from todays photos. Riaan completed his 32,5km in 3hrs5min.
Danie took over from Riaan, and enjoyed a run through Bronkohosrtspuit, that was not planned and ended up running 3km in the worng direction. But without getting too upset, we got back onto the correct road, to complete his 32,5km in a steady 3hrs15min
Guy started running where Danie left off, and to our shock, also realised 7km down a wrong road, before getting back to the correct route. Too many turns and all got a bit confusing for our navigators and GPS' in the crew vehicles. The Sergeant did take note and punishments where distributed during our end of day fines meeting. Guy got through his 32.5km in 2hrs57min
We completed the day running along Atterbury Rd in PTA en route the Pretoria Round Tables Community Centre, where five Tables where waiting to welcome us in. The Pretoria Tables hosted us for a great social and prego roll braai. We really enjoyed the evening, and also received a donation of R4500.19. Thanks to all the tablers from Pretria for your kind hospitality.
With only one day to go, we cannot belive our journey is almost over, and that our legs have takin us this far. We have covered over 500km in 7 days, and have a little over 60km to go on the last day...
Thank you to all who have pledged to support this cause, and with one day to go, ask everyone to spread the word so that we can maximise this support in the final hours.
We have received many phonecalls and sms's on day seven, from friends and family who have heard 350M4M being announced on Highveld 94.7 FM and Radio 702. Thank you for this - we really hope that this may increase the profiel of our run, and that the support increases as a result.
Look forward to our Grand Finish on the Melrose Arch Piazza, and hope to see you all at the Cocktail function starting at 5:30pm on Friday evening. Dress Smart Casual.
See you at the finish, and keep on following the blog, lots more to come!
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