His “crazy” idea to trek between the two great cricket grounds came this time last year when he saw a group of men walk 150 kilometres between Newcastle and the SCG for the breast cancer charity.
“I thought if they can do it and raise $1000 per kilometre,I should be able to raise the bar,” he said on Wednesday.
“I thought for a day or two and then,before the end of January,I’d signed up.
“My friends thought I’m crazy.”
They pointed to the paucity of footpaths and adequate road shoulders and the danger posed by trucks,buses and cars zooming by.
But Malhotra was undeterred.