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Adelaide Kidney Health Australia Angel of the Road Arrives in Darwin
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10/09/2009

 Media Release                                          10 September 2009
 
Adelaide Kidney Health Australia Angel of the Road Arrives in Darwin
Solo Bicycle Rider Completes 4500 kilometres 
 
NT: Margie Raynor, a fifty four year old school teacher from Adelaide who left her home town on 17th of July is on the last day of her 4500 kilometre solo ride to Darwin this morning as she heads towards Darwin.  
 
She is completing her ride with an 87 kilometre last stage and has just begun her ride.  
 
 
Margie will arrive in Darwin today at the Berrimah Hidden Valley Tourist Park, hopefully in the morning if she gets a tail wind at around 10.00am or 1.30pm if she faces a headwind.    

At a special ceremony at the start of the ride Margie Raynor officially became a Kidney Angel, an award from Kidney Health Australia which recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions in helping people with kidney disease, by raising funds pedalling a total of 28,000 kilometres.   
 
Getting back home from Darwin will be made easy courtesy of a Gold Class ticket generously provided by Great Southern Rail.
 
Margie's commitment to helping people with kidney disease stems from personal experience when Margie's daughter was diagnosed with kidney disease at five years of age.  
 
CONTACT MARGIE TODAY FOR INTERVIEW ON THE ROAD 
 Margie Raynor Mobile on the Road: 0419  772  249
or interview her at the Berrimah Hidden Valley Tourist Park at the end of the ride.  
 
Share some of Margie's unusual experiences of riding solo on the road with your listeners and some of the people she has met along the way - her own thoughts of getting up at 5.30am every morning to face on average 100 kilometres a day in all weather conditions and what happened when her back axle broke a couple of weeks ago.   
 
On the road on her own, Margie developed some unusual ways of raising funds for kidney disease by charging $20 to answer questions such as "How many tyres have you used? Or the other favourite "How many punctures have you had?"  
 
www.renalride09.com - Margie's blog

Media Enquiries:
Margie Raynor Mobile:  0419 772 249 Available for Interview on road  
Ron Smith National Media Communications Kidney Health Australia
Mobile: 0417 329 201  
     
 
   

 


 

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