James Pretto and Elizabeth Dorman paddled to victory on the 155km course from the mountain township of Marysville into Melbourne’s Yarra’s Edge at the Docklands in one of the most challenging point-to-point endurance races in Australia.

The Marysville 2 Melbourne Multisport Challenge returns for it’s third edition next Sunday 28 April, with hundreds of multidiscipline athletes taking on a spectacular 155 kilometre journey as they run, cycle and paddle from the country to the city

Vigor Health & Fitness are long-time participants of the Marysville to Melbourne multisport challenge, and are back for a 3rd year, with over 60 participants ready for this grand 155km journey from country to city! It’s not too late to join in the regular Vigor group training sessions if you’re signed up, or thinking about signing up - they are definitely the team to be with for some motivation!

Nicole Cudia and Narelle Kenny - two proud wives - sent us a poem about their experiences volunteering for Rapid Ascent events (as they support their husbands with their adventure pursuits). A fantastic poem - thank you ladies! Check it out...

As a way of supporting and encouraging sports clubs to be involved with the M2M, we will be offering a CASH REBATE back to any club who enters an individual or team in the 2013 event.

A smile leapt onto my face the other day when I was looking down the M2M entry list and saw that the Tuesday Night Parma’s had entered M2M for a third year in a row. With this much race cred, and a team name like that, I just had to get in touch and ask them a few questions for the benefit of all of us. Here is their (funny) story…