00:00Counting down, a sea of pink taking off, running, walking and even crawling along the tan.
00:14Nearly 45,000 took part in Mother's Day classic events around Victoria, about 27,000 in Melbourne.
00:22Can I wish all the mums of Melbourne a very happy Mother's Day? We love you, we appreciate you.
00:30Raising money for breast and ovarian cancer research, it's a mix of participants.
00:37Some personally affected, Stephen taking part for the first time since losing his wife to breast cancer late last year.
00:46Hopefully one day someone doesn't go through what I've got to go through.
00:49My wife was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer a couple of weeks ago after returning from beating it four years ago.
00:55She's waiting at the finish line, she's physically not able to, so I'm walking for her today.
01:02I am now two years in the clear from breast cancer.
01:05An embrace and honour walk, observing a minute of silence to remember those touched by the cancers.
01:12Across the country, 90,000 people took part across 85 events.
01:18It's a fantastic community event that really wraps its arms around people who are dealing with breast cancer and really honours those who have been lost to breast cancer.
01:27More than $47 million has been raised for breast cancer research since the Mother's Day classic began in 1998.
01:34The event expanding to also support ovarian cancer research just last year.
01:41We really haven't seen the same number of steps forward on the research front and the survival rates as we have with breast cancer.
01:49So I thought it was time for us to throw our arms around ovarian cancer as well.
01:52One colourful morning, creating ongoing awareness.
01:56One colourful morning, creating ongoing awareness.
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