‘My friends thought I’m crazy’: retired economist walks from Melbourne to SCG to raise money for breast cancer

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‘My friends thought I’m crazy’: retired economist walks from Melbourne to SCG to raise money for breast cancer
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Prabodh Malhotra, 71, set a course from the MCG to Sydney via Canberra which took 52 days and saw him go through four pairs of shoes

Prabodh Malhotra arrives at the SCG after walking from Melbourne to Sydney to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation.Prabodh Malhotra arrives at the SCG after walking from Melbourne to Sydney to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation.After Prabodh Malhotra took his seat at theMelbourne

His “crazy” idea to trek between the two great cricket grounds came this time last year when he saw a group of men walk 150km between Newcastle and the SCG for the same breast cancer charity.“I thought if they can do it and raise $1,000 per kilometre, I should be able to raise the bar,” he said on Wednesday.

They pointed to the paucity of footpaths and adequate road shoulders and the danger posed by trucks, buses and cars zooming by. But Malhotra was undeterred.

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