Finish line on Wings

On some street crossings in Melbourne one can notice following announcements:

Finish line catches competitors?
Beautiful, I am in it. Catch me if you can!

Well, the devil is in the details.

Wings for Life is a fundraising run, an initiative of Red Bull company. All proceeds are used for funding spinal cord injury treatment research.

The first beauty of the run is that it starts at the same astronomical time in 25 locations around the world. In Santa Clarita,California at 4 am, in Sunrise, Florida at 7 am, in Cambridge, UK at noon, in most of European locations including Poznan in Poland at 1 pm, in Izmir, Turkey at 2 pm, in Dubai at 3 pm, in Tinan, Taiwan at 7 pm, and last, but still at he same astronomical time - Melbourne at 9 pm.

Date of the event - 7 May - next Sunday.
9 pm, in the middle of Autumn. It will be cold and dark. To fight the second element each participant will be given a head torch. Wow! It will be an amazing view!

The second beauty is, what the photo shows - The Finish Line comes to participants. Not exactly a line, a Catcher Truck - it sounds threatening.
Actually, each participant will carry a chip and the Catcher Car, when passing the runner, will recognize the starting number - the runner is out.

What chance the people have against the car?
A fair chance. The car starts half an hour after participants and initially drives with speed 15km/h. Most of marathon runners run a bit faster than that, so they should be able lto ast for a significant time. To prevent someone to run around the world, the catcher can accelarates after some time intervals and finally reaches speed 40 km/h. Even best sprinters cannot match such a speed.
Still, last year, the best result for a runner was some 87 km. Incredible!

And what about me? What about ME?
Well, in first place, due to heart condition, I cannot run at all. So I will walk.
How fast, how far?
Registering the the run I declared my target as 7 km. Today I had a test. Well, I was not able to walk faster than 1km in 10 minutes. It means I will be caught after 50 minutes walk, at the distance of 5 km. Booooo :(

The final point - fundraising. Well, with such limited abilities I do not expect much, still anyone interested can support this good cause donating here - CLICK.