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City College's Marathon effort
6 April 2011
Over 200 City College Brighton and Hove students and staff are looking forward to either running or volunteering at the upcoming Brighton Marathon. The College has taken over part of the course with its volunteers, covering the notorious 'road to hell' and the 'mad mile', where runners last year suffered the most. Their suffering will be a little less this year with the enthusiastic College support and help, which includes a water station team at mile 22. Elite runners from the Brighton area will be rewarded by the City College trophy - and prize money - for the first Brightonian male and female past the finish line. The College will also be providing the trophy awarded to the winners of the much-publicised Mayo Wynne Baxter corporate challenge. The distinctive designs for these trophies come from Cadi Froehlich and Jo Brown, students on the Fine Art Foundation Degree course.
As well as a sizeable volunteer team, the College was proud last year to be instrumental in a world-first by building 'The Wall' in the augural Brighton Marathon and is doing so again this year. The idea of 'The Wall' was borne out of the marathon legend that every runner will get a feeling of insurmountable fatigue that makes them feel like they are running through a wall, usually at around 20 miles into a race. Tom Dowds, Head of Carpentry and no stranger to the marathon distance, had a vision of building the wall at Mile 20 and the College's Carpentry department has again built what is already a major talking point of the entire event. 'The Wall' is quite a feat of teamwork and engineering and once constructed, is bigger than a double decker bus and requires roughly 300 metres of timber and over 20 litres of paint. When it came to decorating The Wall, the Carpentry team were aided in their efforts by local graffiti artist Tom Goulden.
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'We've come up with a new design this year and it's been a huge effort for students and staff to get it ready' says Tom Dowds. ' ? but its worth the effort when you see the visual impact it has on the day and the fantastic way crowds cheer on the runners as they get through The Wall.'
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About City College Brighton and Hove: Situated in the heart of Brighton, City College Brighton and Hove has become an international centre of vocational excellence. Every year 2,000 full-time, 10,000 part time, over 500 Higher Education and 250 14-16 year old students as well as many international and European students choose City College as their place of further and higher education training. In addition, the College provides training to over 2,000 businesses via its 'City Business Skills' department which focuses on employer training needs. Offering over 700 courses from basic level right through to business and postgraduate training, City College is working with its partners to develop the workforce of the future.
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