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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.

 
 
 
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One day a chicken was pecking the ground when a shadow passed before him. Looking up he saw a huge eagle, flying majestically above. "Magnificent' he thought, as the eagle effortlessly glided through the air, surveying the world below him.

As he gazed at the eagle the other chickens began to notice his attention was elsewhere. 'What are you looking at?' They mocked. "See that eagle?' he said 'Isn't he wonderful. One day I want to ride the air like him'

"Haaaaah' One scolded. 'You're a chicken mate, nothing more. Why dont you just get back here with the rest of us and eat the kitchen scraps.'

"Yeah' said another 'Chicken is what chickens is and chickens aint no eagles' 'Why would you want to stare at the sky anyway? All the food is right here on the ground.'

'Just keep your head down' Said another 'Wishing for things you cant have, trying to be things you cant be.' 'You know you'll only cause trouble for the rest of us'

But the chicken couldn't rest. Everyday he stared at the sky, longing to soar like an eagle. Aching to feel the breeze in his wings. 'One day' he'd say 'One day I'll do it'

So here's a question for you -

Are you going to live the life of a chicken; head down, hen pecked and accepting the scraps  thrown to you, or are you going to soar like an eagle?
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Finding our place in life.

Our goals are not set in stone. Often we start out striving to achieve what we think we should do and on the way there we find new direction.  Changing course part way to goal, deciding there is a new path that leads you to being who you were meant to be, not who other people thought, you should be, is the right thing for you ~ and me.

Express yourself, be yourself, that is what you will do best in life. :-)