Around this time last year, I set myself a new years’ resolution, a challenge, Year of the Fun Walk, as an effort to exercise and challenge myself as a walker more. This month, I successfully completed the challenge by completing 13 runs (9 virtual, 4 real world) and even a virtual cycle. I said at the start of the year
Read moreMy fun walk for December as part of my Year of the Fun Walk 2019, and my final walk for this challenge was the Ugly Sweater Challenge. The Ugly Sweater Challenge was hosted by Virtual Run Events. Its aim was to celebrate National Ugly Sweater Day on December 19, as well as Virtual Run Events’ fifth annual Ugly Sweater Challenge,
Read moreMy fun walk for November as part of my Year of the Fun Walk 2019 was Virtual Pace Series’ Sloth Run Challenge. The Challenge’s web page states that the ” sloth’s life revolves around eating & sleeping… unfortunately a lot of us can identify with that. Our challenge is to break out of sloth-like behaviour and be more active.” The
Read moreMy October fun runs for my Year of the Fun Walk 2019 were the 2019 Support Our Girls & You Are My Sunshine virtual runs. The 2019 Support Our Girls virtual run was hosted by http://www.virtualrunevents.com. This run was their fifth annual Breast Cancer awareness themed virtual race—SUPPORT OUR GIRLS: Fight Like A Woman. There was the option of five
Read moreMy Year of the Fun Walk run for September was the 2019 Lake Run and Ride (formerly known as Lake to Lagoon). This fun run was significant for me in many ways. This year marked the first time I had completed Lake to Lagoon since 2007. It is currently the longest distance I have completed in my four years of
Read moreMy Year of the Fun Walk run for August was this year’s Wagga Wagga Trail Marathon. This fun run marks the first fun run I’ve completed in my home town of Wagga Wagga since the Lake to Lagoon in 2007. The Wagga Wagga Trail Marathon is a full-weekend running event and is regarded as the premier distance running event in
Read moreMy Year of the Fun Walk run for July was the Happy Birthday Harry virtual run. The Happy Birthday Harry virtual run was a virtual run to celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday on July 31. It was the first annual Happy Birthday Harry run, with the option of five distances to complete: 1 mile, 5km, 10km, 13.1 miles or 26.2 miles.
Read moreMy Year of the Fun Walk run for June wasn’t actually a walk or a run at all. My non run-walk for June was Virtual Cycle Live 2019 and I chose to do a virtual cycle instead of a run or walk as I was having some issues with my foot to the point it was being investigated, so I
Read moreMy May run for my Year of the Fun Walk 2019 was the Mother’s Day Classic 2019 in Adelaide. On Sunday 12 May 2019, I completed the SA and final leg of my Fun Walking (not Running) Tour, by participating in the Mother’s Day Classic 2019 in Adelaide. According to their official website, the Mother’s Day Classic is “an annual
Read moreMy Year of the Fun Walk run for April was the London 5K 2019. The London 5K 2019 was a 5km virtual run to support the London marathoners. I completed this distance on April 22 in one hour. The entry fee was donated to Footprints CEC. According to their website, Footprints CEC “provide Conductive Education and other services to help
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