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And they’re off in the 2019 Chinny Charge. Photo Tree Faerie.

The junior runners were the first off the blocks for the Chinny Charge last Saturday in Mullumbimby with around 30 kids joining the run.

The 500 spaces for the over 12’s run and walk up the mountain were gone before the big day.

Seventeen-year-old Nathan Powell from Samford in Queensland was the winner of the mountain charge in a time of 31 minutes and twenty-one seconds. 

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