5th Annual Sunrise on the Great Ocean Road Run Oct 9th 2011

joni · Postby **joni** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:14 pm

The Annual “Sunrise on the Great Ocean Road” Run 2011

As featured in the United Kingdom’s “Soft Top Hardtop Magazine”

Come and drive this iconic road to celebrate the 21st Birthday of the Mazda MX-5 Club of Victoria!

Sunday 9th October @ 6:00 am for a 6:30 am sharp start

Early start = no traffic = great drive

*New convoy starting point*
Departs from BP Service Centre, Little River (M1 Princes Fwy) Melways ref: 424 H2 - Just before (1.8km) Avalon Airport

2nd arranged convoy meeting point (drive-by only) @ Bunning’s car park, 237 Colac Rd, Waurn Ponds (cnr Anglesea Rd) 6:50 am
3rd arranged convoy meeting point (drive-by only) @ Anglesea IGA Shopping Centre Car park, 69/89 Great Ocean Rd, Anglesea 7:15 am
ETA Apollo Bay 9:00 am
OR feel free to catch us somewhere along the way!

Includes short break @ Lorne foreshore ending @ Apollo Bay for breakfast

Mobiles for the day are Joni & Chris on 0434 891 354 or 0419 377 911 Email chrisandjoni@iinet.net.au with any queries

No need to RSVP - just turn up! Casual no frills run with plenty of opportunity to drive on the iconic road with your mates

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzEUhcYFvk&NR=1 for first timers to see what you are in for…

See you all there, Joni (&Chris)

05ragtop · Postby **05ragtop** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:13 pm

Don't forget to clean and polish the "5" this week. Looks like the weather might be ok. Hope we have a good turnout as there has not been much response here!!! Cheers Johno :shock:

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:38 pm

05ragtop wrote:Don't forget to clean and polish the "5" this week. Looks like the weather might be ok. Hope we have a good turnout as there has not been much response here!!! Cheers Johno

There never is. Don't worry there's always a huge turnout for this one

lee · Postby **lee** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:02 am

I'll be there, and my girlfriend will be riding shotgun. I've been looking forward to this drive for a long time

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:53 am

The GLW and I are in for this one

murph · Postby **murph** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:15 am

I'm in swell, Dad and I will be sharing the driving

emex · Postby **emex** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:24 pm

Arranged my holidays around this run, driving from Brisbane via Sydney for this. Looking forward to it!

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:41 pm

Can't wait..! This is always a great run! =)

specmiata · Postby **specmiata** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:51 am

All,
Looked like a 'greasy' morning for the run, hope you all had a safe one. I was in Apollo Bay Sun. morning and saw the groups arriving, after having just walked 3 days of the 'Great Ocean Walk' with a group of mates.

Like many of us i have been driving th Great Ocean Road in a variety of cars since i got my license, and it is one of the best pieces of road in the world.
The 'Great Ocean Walk' follows the coast from Apollo Bay to the twelve apostles, although i am still more 'petrol head' than 'greeny' but having now walked this section of the coast it confirmed that this part of Victoria / Australia is world class. We met people on the walk from all around the world who had travelled to Australia to do it.

Although i was dissapointed to miss the run, it was unbelieable to see that part of the coast from a different perspective. I'll be back next year, driving NOT walking!

TSM

mentalpopcorn · Postby **mentalpopcorn** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:12 pm

I was on the run Sunday and fair to say it was wet! Still...nothing quite like driving the Great Ocean Road with the roof down and the windscreen wipers on. Thankfully it was mainly light to heavy drizzle so the roof could stay off as long as we kept moving. I only had to stop once when the rain got too heavy around Airey's Inlet from memory.

The official count was around 53 cars. Great turn out given the weather.

Here are a couple of photo's at the first stop in Lorne.

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:45 pm

mentalpopcorn, what are the number plates of your car? Do they reflect the model you have? If so I have a video of your car I'll post up when I have the chance =)

Great day, especially considering the weather! Also a great turnout all things considered, can't wait for next year =)

mentalpopcorn · Postby **mentalpopcorn** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:00 pm

Yes...that would be me. Look forward to seeing the video!

Also cannot wait until next year..hopefully we get some nicer weather. Still..we have all summer to enjoy.

japester · Postby **japester** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:13 am

The only good side to completely missing the start (Sarah was unwell, with little sleep and nausea), was that we didn't have to worry about holding anyone up when I randomly stopped and pulled my camera out. So much beautiful scenery that required the attention of my camera!

I had the gopro strapped to my windscreen as well, but the footage is a little ... iffy. I do want to edit it into something, but that'll take time, given I have almost no video editing skills.

pics up on flickr

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:55 am

Impressive pictures japester.
Appears you took the scenic route complete with gravel road, nice.

two-3 · Postby **two-3** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:01 pm

Damn, I am really annoyed at myself now that I elected not to attend due to weather. Got up in the morning and it was still drizzling and thought to myself leave it for another day.
Excellent turn out weather considered.