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ISSUE NO. 1779
8 - 14 August 2019
COSTA DEL SOL
FUNDRAISER: Chris (left) and Janser (right) trekked from Marbella to Granada’s Pico Veleta.
Brits’ charity trek TWO British expatriates raised more than €5,000 for prosthetic limbs for a Marbella woman after completing a 24-hour trek from the Costa del Sol to the Sierra Nevada on Saturday. Chris Grenfell and Jansen Riley journeyed from Marbella to the Granada Province mountain range in aid of Sarah Almagro Vallejo. The Trifit Marbella Challenge saw them first swim five kilometres off Marbella. They then cycled around 255 kilometres from there to Granada City before running 50 kilometres up Europe’s highest tarmac road on the Pico Velata, all in 24 hours. Chris told Euro Weekly News: “Overall it was a great 24 hours. A hard 24 hours, but everyone
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helped brilliantly.” He added despite being unable to complete the journey because of ill health on the last mountain leg fellow trifit athlete Jansen did in 23 hours, 13 mins. Backup driver for the athletes Helen Johnson said: “I’m a runner and a triathlete and I could tell what was going on in their minds by looking at their faces. I could see that team spirit.”
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