Apollonius runners John Cannell, 38, of Launceston and Brendan Davies, 32, of Sydney.

Apollonius should be the next team of runners back to Lady Barron.

This interesting team is made up of Brendan Davies, a distance runner and triathlete from Sydney, and Launceston's John Cannell, who was called to the team just two days before the start as an emergency runner.

Both are first-time Three Peaks competitors and Cannell, while a last minute addition to the team, said he felt honoured to compete.
Davies said he had been putting in about 100km a week in training in the lead-up to the race, while recovering from his major attempt at the NSW Six Foot Track Race. He is a strong runner, with a half marathon PB of 1hour 18min and marathon PB of two hours 47 minutes.
"I had a good sleep on boat, there was only about five knots so it was very calm," the inexperienced sailor said.
"I'm doing this race for the adventure - I love running off road but am better on road.

"This is a very beautiful part of Australia."