(Back row) SIP Anna Ng, CIP J. T. Fairgrieve, DC PTS Peter Morgan, SIP R. Brooks, (front) Ag SGTs W. H. Kam, Y. K. Ng, P. C. Cheung with IP Mark Sharp, with Brick Hill in the background

The officers have been using mostly their lunch hours to run the punishingly steep route which they estimate is roughly four kilometres long.

Although the route has proven highly demanding, team members said they were determined to meet their goal to ensure funds were raised.

PTS Deputy Commandant Peter Morgan said: "If the goal is reached then all the proceeds will go to a worthy cause. A charity will soon be nominated where people can make their donations."

The punishing route takes runners up a steep flight of stairs from the PTS and along the Ocean Park cable car route.

It then goes around towards the south side of the hill where it's then all comfortably downward along Nam Long Shan Road back to the school.

Although highly demanding on fitness, the runners have been happy to find the route does offer some consolation through its spectacular views of the southern beaches and the South China Sea.

One of the runners, Inspector Mark Sharp, PTS Senior Physical Training Instructor, said although only 200 Brick Hills had been achieved so far, officers would be running several times every day once the heat and humity eased and cooler weather arrived.

"At the moment we are in the middle of the hottest part of the year and people are only running about once a day, during lunch time, leading to the term 'we're having a Brick for lunch'!

"But still, if we get to September or October and not enough Brick Hills have been achieved by then, then everyone at the PTS will take part which will culminate in a final run of about 100 runners to complete the 2,000 trips."

The runners would have completed a total of about 8,000 kilometres once the goal was met.

IP Sharp said the team might even consider forwarding their target to Christmas Eve as people might become busy with millennium celebrations after that.





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