After five long years we finally made it back to Coffs
An intrepid group of Austin Page College runners (and one Duvalian!) ran the 220 kilometres from Armidale to Coffs Harbour Jetty on 23 and 24 August to raise over $3000 for the Children’s’ Medical Research Institute.
The Coast Run started in 1980 (when it was a lot easier to get permission for such things) and was a yearly event up until the last Coast Run in 2019. Despite multiple attempts, we were unable to get the Coast Run happening until this year and that is to the credit of our Coast Run Convenor Bethany Gauci and her co-convenor Annie Lyne, who secured the approval of four councils, the Roads and Traffic Authority and the NSW police force.
So, on a warmish Friday morning at 7am, Mayor Sam Coupland and VC Professor Chris Moran saw off a group of about 30 runners and support staff and headed down the hill for Coffs with a letter to the Mayor of Coffs Coast. After a stop-over at Dorrigo on Friday night, our runners head through East Dorrigo, Coramba, and, finally, arrived at Coffs Harbour Jetty at 3.30 in the afternoon, where the Coffs Coast Mayor was waiting with a Representative from the Children’s Medical Research Institute with his own letter for Mayor Coupland.
Our Austin Page Coast Runners and support crew did the college, and UNE, proud. Take a bow people.
Luke Fowler
Head, Austin Page College