Tom Kovac loves a good challenge so he’s been running up the Eureka Tower’s 3680 flights of stairs once a year for the past seven.
As part of his preparation for next month’s Eureka Climb, the Melton 52-year-old runs solo throughout the week and then around Toolern Vale with his mates at weekends.
“It’s a good social challenge for us,” Mr Kovacs (pictured) said.
But he and his ‘Are We There Yet?’ team of four shoot two birds with one stone – they run for various fundraising events throughout the year and have a grand breakfast “straight after”.
Money raised during the Eureka Climb will go to Interplast, which links Australian and New Zealand plastic surgeons and health professionals with patients in the Asia-Pacific region who have disabilities such as burn scars, and to Whitelion, which works with young people at risk and disconnected from their communities because of abuse, neglect, drug addiction and poverty.
“We’ve done it as challenge as a group for the last seven or eight years,” Mr Kovacs said.
The Eureka Climb will be held on Sunday, November 16.
To make a pledge to Mr Kovacs, visit www.eurekaclimb.com.au/registrant/10239
