Support my 100km walk to save and protect our wildlife.

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My target 100 kms

Support my walk to save and protect our wildlife

This April, I am taking part in Walk on the Wild Side to support our scaly, furry and feathered friends.

Australian native animals are in crisis. More than 1,900 of our plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, including our iconic koalas, which are now endangered in many parts of Australia.

I'm conquering this challenge to raise funds for WIRES to give sick, injured and orphaned native animals their second chance of life in the wild.

Every year, WIRES responds to almost 150,000 urgent calls for help and assistance for animals in distress.

Your donation will ensure they can continue to rescue, rehabilitate and release our native wildlife and fund critical rescues and life-saving care.

Please DONATE NOW and support my challenge to save and protect our wildlife.

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A walk in the park!

Saturday 12th Apr

My fifth parkrun and a new PB of 57.56!

Not bad considering I left my back brace in the car, and I really needed it for the last two kms.

I prefer bushwalking but parkrun is really useful to measure improvement over time, I definitely feel I’m getting stronger and fitter, but it’s quite hard on my hip and today the nerves in my right leg were impacted which made every step a game of will the leg fold or hold me up?

Each electric spasm switched the glutes, quads and hamstring off and on in weird and unpredictable ways.

I just focused on keeping my core engaged as much as possible and trying to relax the hip flexors between each step. It worked!

One step in front of the other!

It feels good to be back at parkrun after five weeks of missing it.

A lot of up!

Tuesday 8th Apr

109 mtrs of altitude gain in 2.7kms and 55 minutes.

What a way to start the day!

It began with some technical down a rough track but my hip was playing so nice today that it barely impeded me.

Then the uphill was definitely up, but relatively easy.

The view from the top was totally worth it, and I feel an incredible sense of achievement as this was the hill of intimidation that was far easier in reality.

I feel great!

All the little things.

Monday 7th Apr

Last week was filled with to-ing and froing, as my parents were visiting Tassie . So not a lot of official dedicated walks; but rather many steps racking up the kms.

They’ve returned to the mainland now so it’s back to normal programming plus deliberate get out and walk for WIRES!!!

It will be nice to get back to parkrun at the end of the week.

I’m a little short of my first week target kms but hopefully will get in the groove and make those up over the next few weeks.

Team turbo chooks is currently at #6 on the team leaderboard, and I need to start encouraging people to sponsor me to do my part in stepping up more places!

Help me raise $1200 even $5 at a time!

Every little bit helps and adds up!

No April fools!

Tuesday 1st Apr

Today’s hike began in the dark just before sunrise at 7am. It was chilly and my body was struggling from a week of dance rehearsals and performances last week.

The track down was rough with lots of trip hazards that my head torch struggled to illuminate, but I took it slow and used my hiking poles to keep me upright.

As the light crept into the sky the track became much easier and the incline began.

Normally going up is much easier for my hip, but the previous week had taken its toll and I got to the top by sheer willpower and determined one foot slowly in front of the other.

Only a short hike (49 minutes) but technically challenging for my worn out body and a great way to start the challenge.

Trevallyn reserve is so peaceful at this time of the morning. Only the occasional thump of pademelons bounding off and the raucous calls of cockatoos, kookaburra and ravens to break the stillness.