44 / Greensborough Melbourne Marathons: x3 Cathy started running after a friend prompted her to come down to their local athletics club. She met for the first time some amazing long-distance running girls and guys who she now calls her lifelong friends. They are…

8 Years Old Melbourne Marathon Festivals: x4 (3km) Annabelle, with assistance from her family, has participated in the Melbourne Marathon Festival as part of Team CPEC since she was three years old. In 2019 she was one of the first children to gain…

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38 / Mernda Melbourne Marathons Festivals: x2 (10km) Jessica kept waiting to sign up to a running event, “when I’m fitter, when I’m feeling better, there was always an excuse.” One day something changed within her, she had a moment of “do it now,…

68 / Seaford Melbourne Marathons: x42 (Spartan Legend) MM PB: 2:40.36 – 1982 1978 Time: 3:32:10 2019 Time: 4:06:42 Wayne started running because he was “hopeless at football and cricket”.  He had always loved running as a kid, he “just felt like [he] was…

Melissa Yu / 31 / South Melbourne Melbourne Marathon Festivals: x1 (21km) “I love this city, so I love running this city’s marathon. The atmosphere, the energy. It's that many passionate and like-minded people coming together and running for a purpose, whatever their own…

David Foskey / 74 / Malvern Melbourne Marathons: x42 (Spartan Legend) MM PB: 2:58.51 – 1986 1978 Time: 4:14:10 2019 Time: 5:42:30 “I’ve always liked running, never very good at it” admits David. When the first Melbourne Marathon was announced, he and his housemate,…

Runners who have successfully completed 10 or more Melbourne Marathons are known as ‘Melbourne Marathon Spartans’. Over 1,500 runners have achieved this, including 5 Spartans, who have run all 42 Melbourne Marathons since the event was established in 1978. These 5 are known as…

In the late seventies and early 80s, most major cities decided to follow in the successful footsteps of Boston and host a marathon. Melbourne staged its first marathon in 1978 to 2,500 runners on a course that began in Frankston, headed up Nepean Highway and finished…

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