Brad Carron-Arthur
After a four month marathon journey, Brad Carron-Arthur will today fulfil his goal of running from Canberra to Cape York to raise money for mental health research. Mr Carron-Arthur, who recently graduated from The Australian National University with a Bachelor of Psychology, has run nearly 5,000km. In doing so, he has raised more than $20,000 for the Australian Foundation for Mental Health Research (AFFIRM) at ANU. The 22-year-old set off on New Year's Day, 2012 and has run up to 60km a day, five days a week. He has run alone, carrying everything in a backpack. Along the way he has visited schools and talked to students about mental health issues and how exercise can improve health and happiness. "There have certainly been moments when I've been dehydrated, and it might be a few kilometres between a break and somewhere where I can fill up my water bottle at a creek.
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