Halfway through playing the longest hockey game in history - more than 243 consecutive hours - Terri Breker took some time to treat a lower body injury.

The director of marketing for the Abbotsford Heat, and the goalie for Team White at the recently concluded Longest Game 4 CF, had been playing as much as 12 hours between the pipes per day, with a maximum five hours sleep when her shift was over.

The attempt at playing the longest game ever, which, as of the Times' afternoon deadline on Friday, was into its seventh day at Canlan Ice Sports Burnaby 8-Rinks. The previous record was 242 hours, or 10 days.

Its mission was to raise as much money as possible for cystic fibrosis, a disease that affects the lungs and digestive system and kills at least one Canadian every week.

According to Cystic Fibrosis Canada (CFC), one in every 3,600 children born in Canada has cystic fibrosis.

By Thursday, Breker and the 39 participants - all women - had raised more than $100,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Canada, and were still taking donations.

With a worthy cause and history on the line, no one, injured or not, was going to give up, said Breker.

"We've got a lot of battered soldiers out here but they're fighting it," said Breker on Thursday during some off time from the game.

"We're having some fun out there too. It's not super intense hockey. The key is to keep your feet moving. I think the hardest thing on people . . . is the mental fatigue.

"It's physically demanding, but when the mental part of it creeps in, that's when it gets hard."

What has kept Breker and her teammates going were the memories of two people, friends of the Vancouver women's hockey community, who passed away as a result of the disease.

"At the end of the day, we're all here for one goal and that's to raise awareness and funding for cystic fibrosis," she said, adding the goal was to raise up to $400,000 for CFC.

"What keeps us motivated are all those people who have CF, their family and their friends. They don't have a choice, they can't walk away from this. We want to help them out. We can play through some blisters and some pain."

? For more information on cystic fibrosis, visit http: //www.cysticfibrosis. ca.

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