Excerpt from article in Sydney Morning Herald.
Gavin McCormack sails over the finish line in The Sun-Herald City2Surf wearing a granny's dress. It isn't any granny's but his late grandmother's violet little number, all the way from England. Her name happened to be Violet.
"I always run in this dress," Mr McCormack confides.
What is striking is the time. He has finished in a creditable 63 minutes. These kinds of attention seekers – the fund-raising funsters in bunny suits and tutus – are usually another 20 to 30 minutes away from finishing the City2Surf, presented by Westpac, the world's most populated running event, for which almost 80,000 people registered this year.
But on Sunday, in the 45th running of the event, Mr McCormack takes the gong as the fastest among the truly absurd. Jono Woodhouse, from Balgowlah, is mildly silly in his Braveheart war paint when he finishes at 58 minutes and 22 seconds, but he doesn't risk the kind of wardrobe malfunction that might befall Mr McCormack, a teacher at the Montessori school in Balmain.
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By running in Violet's violet frock, Mr McCormack is changing the world in his own small way. He has run several half-marathons in this dress to raise money for charity. And so work is about start on the rebuilding of 10 homes in earth-quake devastated Nepal, he said.
He and his friends unite as Grannies Run for Nepalese Orphans and raise funds on the Go Fund Me website.
Also, front page in The Herald - more important than the prime minister!
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