STUDENTS at Oxley High School absolutely smashed a 550 kilometre stationary marathon to raise funds for the Cancer Council.
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The kids set themselves a goal to clock up the kilometres on rowing machines, stationary bikes and ski machines on Wednesday and by the afternoon had almost doubled their kilometre target and raised $4,500.
Everyone had thrown themselves into the challenge to raise funds for such an important cause, Oxley High School sports council coordinator Ryan Whitton said.
"We were trying to get 550 kilometres, which is from here to John Hunter Hospital and back and we're trying to raise $5000 for the Cancer Council," he said.
"We should easily smash the target with three-and-a-half hours to go."
At least 150 students were involved, either walking laps of the hockey field, doing the heavy lifting, selling raffle tickets or cooking the barbecue.
A fair few families at the school had been affected by cancer, Mr Whitton said.
"They know the hardships of that, they know the importance and how hard it is to go through that process of travelling and getting treatment," he said.
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Year 9 student Mia Stokes said because the school couldn't have a normal Relay for Life due to COVID-19 they decided to do a scaled-down version.
"We knew we could bring in other classes and make them run a couple of laps for us," she said.
"Cancer is very common, everyone knows someone who has been affected by it so it's important to support organisations like that."
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