Living Proof – You Can Do Anything
Last week the community of Hall put on a little fundraiser for Deborah De Williams as she passed through Hall on her world record run around Australia. With her fantastic support crew of Karin and Owen (mum and dad); partner, Glyn; and her faithful Border Collie, Maggie, Deborah has jogged over 16,000km of her 17,407km journey to raise money for breast cancer research. Her tally so far stands at $205,738 and she hopes to reach $300k. If you’d like to support her mammoth effort, you can make a donation via her website Running...
read moreAn Adventure Before Breakfast
One of the things I often do is go for a jog before breakfast. When I’m traveling, my morning jog can be a bit of an expedition, as it was a few days ago. We were staying in a hotel in Wagga Wagga for a few days and as usual, I’d packed some exercise gear. I don’t like running along the roads if I can avoid it, so the night before, I pulled up Google maps to find a route for my morning jog. I was in luck, there appeared to be a good path following along the edge of the river for three or four kilometres in either direction from the...
read moreSomeone Put a Volcano In My Path
The Great Volcanic Mountain Challenge I love a challenge, in fact like all of us, I need a challenge, because without it, I just seem to let life happen to me. Lately my fitness has suffered from a lack of focus. I need to lose a few kilograms and I need to increase my aerobic capacity so, I needed a suitable challenge. Whilst having a beer with one of my ex clients on Friday night, he said ‘I’ve got just the thing for you.’ And so begins my commitment to run in the Great Volcanic Mountain Challenge. We all need regular challenges to...
read moreJanuary Madness
The disastrous flooding in Queensland, NSW and Victoria distracted the country’s attention and whilst all around us has been flooded with water, we have been flooded with activity; social, community, family and work. Stand aside 2010, 2011 is well underway. January is usually a fairly quiet time of the year for us. Most organisations are running with a skeleton staff, traffic on the streets flows easily at peak hour and life is usually pretty quiet. Ordinarily, this is a great time to rearrange the filing system, update equipment, configure...
read moreChristmas Reflections
And a Tip for New Year Another year draws to a close having seemingly been somehow shorter than all the years before it. Already we are well into party mode with much food and drink already under our belts… (Or perhaps rolling over our belts!). Like many others, I’ve also started to think about new goals I’d like to set for 2011. One that always comes to mind is getting fit. For some reason I never seem to be as fit as I want to be, especially around this time of year! Last year I wrote my goals down – this is important because now I...
read moreThe Flood of 2010
We have had many storms and record rainfalls over the last few weeks and the place is a quagmire. The dams are all bursting over spillways and the creeks are all swollen, there is some minor flooding and quite a few homes have sustained water damage. On Saturday, it was a fairly clear day and I spent the morning helping a friend remove over 30 sleepers from his garden, some of which had white ants in them. When took them to the tip, it was so muddy that the car became bogged up to the axles. It took an hour to pull it out (thanks to a guy...
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