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Tens of thousands have sacrificed a sleep in to take part in the annual Mother’s Day Classic, raising money for an important cause. It was just one of the ways mothers celebrated a day all about them.

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00:01A sea of pink washing over the tan.
00:05I'm a bit sore, but I'm so glad that I finished this.
00:09Very loved, very loved. Walked eight kilometres together.
00:1330,000 started their day with purpose, the Mother's Day classic raising money and awareness for breast and ovarian cancer
00:20research.
00:21We woke up really early and then we had some breakfast and then we came here.
00:28Where are we off to? Brunch.
00:31Many were honouring loved ones and all enjoyed spending time with the most important women in their lives.
00:38Connection with your mum is a beautiful thing and not everyone is lucky enough to have a really strong connection,
00:43but I do and I feel really blessed to have that, so yeah, I love my mum.
00:47She's always been there, any time I needed it, the comfort, the person that gives me the hard words when
00:52I need it,
00:52but there's not one thing, it's just I don't think I'd be the person I am without her.
00:56Spirits were high, but Mother's Day can be emotional for some.
01:00What the Mother's Day classic does though is it takes some of that grief and sometimes that struggle,
01:05but it mixes it with colour and joy and hope.
01:08While some have been running to the finish line, others have been rushing to get a last minute gift to
01:13make their mum's day.
01:15It's pretty busy, yeah. So we get people coming from early morning starting from 5am, so it should be sold
01:20out before 4.
01:21Happy Mother's Day Mummy.
01:24The greatest gift for this first time mum was the safe arrival of her daughter Violet.
01:29Just in disbelief pretty much that it's happened today on Mother's Day, which is very exciting, very special.
01:36A tough one to top next year.
01:38A tough one to top next year.
01:43A tough one to top next year.
01:44A tough one to top next year.
01:44A tough one to top next year.
01:45P
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