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Surfers Marathon 2010, and surfers marathon photos

February 14th, 2010 | Add a Comment

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE SURFERS MARATHON 2010 PHOTOS BELOW, and on our other blog too, ARE NOT FOR SALE.
POLLOCKS PRO PHOTO IN VINCENT PARK CENTRE IS THE PLACE TO VIEW AND ORDER SURFERS MARATHON PHOTOS.

Find out more here:

Rob Pollock Photography and Framing,
and Pollock’s Kodak Express Vincent Park
and
Surfers Challenge gallery

The 2010 surfers marathon photos below were taken just for fun – and you can see quite a few more of these surfers marathon photos we took, on our other blog here:

Surfers Marathon photos taken at Bonza Bay beach

More Bonza Bay Surfers Marathon photographs

Photographs of the 2010 Surfers Marathon near Gonubie Hotel

2010 Surfers Marathon photos taken at Gonubie River, in East London

The tide was coming in quite quickly at the Gonubie River during the 2010 Surfers Marathon and the runners made good use of the two ropes provided to assist the runners and keep them safe

Where's the "Chariots of Fire" music? This group of 2010 Surfers Marathon runners make good progress across the Bonza Bay beach, with about 2 kilometres to the end of the race ahead of them.

2010 Surfers Marathon runners "clock in" as they cross the mat in Gonubie.

13 February 2010 saw the East London coastline being "explored" by many runners in the annual Surfers Marathon Coastal Challenge. This photo was taken at Bonza Bay beach, 2 km from the end of the race.

Under the Gonubie boardwalk in East London, while waiting for the 2010 Surfers Marathon runners

We at TnT in East London do not only take photographs for clients (mostly for “where to stay” places in East London,) but also enjoy photography for fun. At the moment we are using just a small 5 meg camera, but it’s serving its purpose well enough for us now.

We enjoy “wildly rambling about” in East London and the surrounding East London areas, with a camera or two, and having fun capturing what’s going on around us, or capturing scenes, subjects, or “moods” that we admire, or that inspire us in some way.

We work hard as web design, photography and writing freelancers, in East London, and while our business is still growing (and we have a staff of only two), we can’t really afford a lot of time off work or afford to go on vacation, so we grab little bits of “time off” here and there instead, camera mostly always with us.

We enjoyed our “little outing” to watch the runners competing in the Surfers Marathon yesterday the 13th of February 2010 – and hopefully we’ll be running it ourselves in 2011 – we last ran the Surfers Marathon in 2008 – see the “The 2008 Surfers Marathon was my 13th Surfers Marathon” story.

You will see in the one photo included here that we had no idea that the Surfers Marathon runners would be diverted away from Gonubie Boardwalk, and we quite expected all the runners to come clambering and splashing over the rocks and through the splashing edges of the ocean at Gonubie Beach under the boardwalk during this race yesterday. We soon realised they were not. Did this happen last year too?

We took a few photos at

the Gonubie River crossing,

near the Gonubie Hotel,

and at Bonza Bay beach.

We are also keen to know if the mat next to the Gonubie Hotel that runners had to cross so that their ankle bands containing their details could be recorded was also used near the start of the race?
That would certainly help eliminate problems surrounding Surfers Marathon walkers sometimes starting ten minutes early with the runners (see this is mentioned in our other blog post about the Surfers Marathon.)

Well, all in all, it seems both spectators and entrants had fun in the sun and enjoyed the day, and we at TnT hope to join those brave and fit runners and walkers next year!