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One for the Melbournites

or for those who might be interesting in coming to Melbourne for a weekend

Royal Children's Hospital,
Good Friday Appeal,

annual

 Run for the Kids.

14 March 2010

Two easy courses, depending on your fitness level.

You can walk or run the course; it is about raising money for the kids and participating.

There is a 5.2 km course

and a longer 14.6 km course which takes you from the city, over the Bolte Bridge, through the domain tunnel and back to the city.

Costs are for the long run $40 (of which $23 goes to the) and $35 for the short run (of which $18 goes to the Good Friday Appeal). 
Check the website.

 
If you are looking for a training program to be ready for this run, you could take up the Couch Potato to 5 km running plan, (www.c25k.com) and then be ready to participate in this charity fundraising event.   I will be walking the equivalent area, in the country and donating the fee to the Royal Children’s Hospital, (of which I am a ‘Life Governor’),  it's a great cause and a good challenge for those who are up to it - and it's a great day out too.

OMG,  What a goal that would be for me to do.

I am going to make a walk by the riverside in fresh country air.

 14th of March is highly significant to me, it was my mother’s birthday and my mum died at a younger age than I am now, partly due to obesity and partly due to smoking. She died from lifestyle disease. For me to walk that distance at two years older than when my mum passed away, on her birthday, will be proving to myself that I have overcome the family curse of bad health and I know my mum would be pleased for meJ.  

 Therefore, I am going to set it as a goal, make an action plan and begin training tomorrow.  I did a seniors walk around Victoria in the Narre Warren leg, 5kilometers at a 6klm per hour pace. They took us to walk beside a highway and it was 'gasp', smelly exhaust fumes and I thought 'never again', when I can choose parkland away from roads.  I will be walking the distance, not running it.