KONACan News
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A Mountain Climber in Peak Condition
In April 1994, Australian adventurer and mountaineer Grahame Murphy made headlines around the world when he was one of four Australians in an international team, which went to the North Pole by… parachute. More precisely - a freefall parachute jump from a Russian cargo plane and it set a world record. Tumbling out of the airplane, he travelled through the air at 320 km/h and endured ...
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Triathlon World Championships in Las Vegas
This years Triathlon Long Course World Championships was raced over 4 kms swim in the Hoover Dam, then a 120 kms bike followed immediately by a 30kms run - 3 times the Olympic distance And KONACan speaker Glenn Dobson was in the middle of it having been selected to represent Australia Fresh from running ...
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A Real Heavyweight for Charity
The author Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them". In 2000 like many men Glenn Dobson, 53, father, husband and businessman reached the age of 40 and having been retired from footy for over 7 years thought there must be more to life than just working all hours, paying the mortgage and ...
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Glenn Dobson – Chasing the Hawaii Ironman Dream
At the age of 41 Glenn Dobson, a normal bloke, with two young children, mortgage and full time job developed an extraordinary dream..... To compete in the world's toughest one day endurance race, the Hawaii Ironman, a 3.8kms swim, followed immediately by a 180kms bike ride, then a 42kms run, every step fighting against the 40+ degree heat and gale force winds that blast across ...
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2011 Challenges for the KONAcan team
Conquering the Simpson Desert in 2010 inspired the KONACan team to seek new challenges, reach new heights and raise even more money to fight cancer. In 2011 KONA again took up the challenge and completed three of the most gruelling and challenging races on the planet, by running a total of 521 kilometres across mountains, rivers, deserts and sand dunes all in the space of seven weeks. The warm-up In March Justin, Glenn ...
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