Don’t forget Tori is running the marathon this weekend and is hosting a charity event on the 7th October to raise more funds post-race for Cure Cancer Australia.
It is a screening of the new movie Eat, Pray, Love.
For all the details, check my previous entry here TORI’S CHARITY NIGHT
Huge congratulations go out to Kirsty, Christie, Emily and Trish for smashing the 100km trail walk in just over 30 hours. Blisters and all!
Oxfam stats show that less than 50% of teams finish with their full 4 members, yet not one Fitta Bodies teams has ever lost a team member during the walk.
These girls had blisters by checkpoint 3, yet they soldiered on for another 70+ km’s.
I am so proud of them all!!!
Hopefully they can get me an update to post about their experience, but in the mean time, I have attached a few photos I had from the first night.
Special thanks has to go to Darrin and Adam for doing an awesome job as support crew at checkpoints 2 and 3. They also made it to the finish line on Saturday with Rachel to welcome the girls across the finish line!
Tim, Scott and Roger did a great job of support crew through the night, but hey, it’s their duty as boyfriends and husbands!!!
An extra special thanks should go to “Spaceships” campers for donating a campervan for use during the event. Legends! Hopefully they can do the same next year!!!
Here’s a few photos from checkpoints 2 and 3.
Anyone who is interested in doing it next year, can register their interest with me now. I am thinking 2011 is the year we enter 2 teams!
As most of you will remember, Tori has taken on the challenge of running a half marathon and raising money for ” Cure Cancer Australia”. She is having a charity movie night, so read on below…
Hi Fitta Bodies crew
Lots of you have probably heard me say that I am running the Sydney marathon in a few weeks time – my first ever marathon. Along with my friend Bec (who also used to come to morning training a couple of years ago!) I’m having a fundraising film night for our charity, Cure Cancer Australia on 7 October at Randwick Ritz.
Attached is an invitation with all the details, I’d love to see some of you there if you can make it! Feel free to circulate to family & friends, the more people, the more we raise for a great cause!
Cheers,
Tori
Let’s all get behind Tori and sponsor her to run her first full marathon!
Hello All
Well, that exciting time of year is fast approaching – June 30, tax time! In case you’re feeling like you haven’t quite got enough deduction receipts to present to your accountant, or you’d just like to test the scientific research that says that our brains benefit from altruistic deeds*, I thought I’d give you the opportunity to contribute to my marathon effort.
I know many of you support multiple charities, or are embarking on fundraising efforts of your own – but if you can spare any amount in the run-up to the end of the FY, please consider a donation to Can Too.
To sponsor me for the September Marathon:
(1) Go to https://www.cantoo.org.au/sponsorshipform.aspx?PageID=18
(2) Enter “Tori” or “Edwards” – then tick the box next to my name; and
(3) Sponsor away!
All money goes to Cure Cancer Australia Foundation, which funds fellowships for young Australian cancer researchers. http://www.cure.org.au/
In the meantime – we’re well into training, and have been out pounding the pavement in all types of weather. As Sydney-siders will appreciate, the recent flooding rains haven’t really made training that much fun, but as the attached shows, we’ve been out there rain, hail or shine!
Thanks so much for your support.
Cheers,
Tori
As you all know, Fitta Bodies has had a team in the Oxfam Trailwalker for the last 2 years and we have another team ready to go this year.
Kirsty, Kelly and Christie will be forming a team and being joined by one of Kirsty’s friends to make up the 4.
They will be doing training walks on weekends leading up to the event in August, so if anyone is keen to join them, it would be a great way to get some more exercise into your week, you can enjoy the beautiful bushland around Sydney and help keep the girls motivated. Let me know if you would like to join them and I will hook you up.
But, let’s not forget this is a charity event and trust me, it is worth every penny you donate. Walking 100km’s through the bush is no mean feat, I did it in 2008 and I can vouch for how hard it is!
So, below is the blurb from Kirsty and Oxfam:
Hey all,
I am taking part in Oxfam TRAILWALKER Sydney 2010.
Oxfam Trailwalker is the world’s greatest team challenge. And it’s also one of the toughest. The challenge is to get a team of four across 100km of Australian bush in less than 48 hours – and to raise at least $5,000 to help to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
Oxfam Trailwalker is a real challenge – I’ve joined with three other awesome determined chicks and in between work, holidays, wedding plans (not me) and other commitments we’ve started training hard and hope to finish as a team (and alive!) in 40 hours.
The walk takes place from 27th – 29th August. Teams need to start together, go through each checkpoint together, and finish together.
That’s right – I’m hitting you up for donations … so if you’re feeling ungenerous please tune out now and I’ll come and bug you at another time (don’t worry – I won’t forget) …
Read on below to see where your money will go and find out more about the programs that your donation will support.
Or, if you want to avoid the blurb and go straight to the money bit – head here: http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Sydney/team/121
The event began in 1981 as a military exercise for the elite Queen’s Gurkha Signals Regiment in Hong Kong, and has since grown into one of the world’s leading sporting challenges. Oxfam Trailwalker is a global event, taking place annually in New Zealand, UK, Hong Kong and Japan.
Oxfam works in more than 26 countries around the world including Indigenous Australia. By raising money for Oxfam Australia participants will be making a tremendous difference to the lives of some of the world’s most disadvantaged people.
By supporting Oxfam TRAILWALKER you are putting your foot down against poverty and injustice. The people you are helping don’t want to live on handouts. They want to lead dignified, independent lives. Your support gives them the chance to help themselves.
So … how much to give?
Let’s start with the big ones:
$25,000 can provide 850 families in Cambodia with access to clean drinking water and sanitary living conditions via the provision of wells, latrines, house materials and health care services.
$15,000 can provide food and equipment for preparing nourishing meals for 600 orphaned and HIV/AIDS affected children and their families for one year at a South African care centre.
$10,000 can cover the cost of drilling a borehole and establishing a hand pump for a well that will provide a Malawian village of over 3,000 people with a reliable and safe water source.
$5,000 can provide 25 impoverished Sri Lankan women with access to affordable credit to invest in small enterprises such as brick making, cultivation, spice production, shops and livestock rearing.
$1,000 can provide an emergency kit, including water container, tools, kitchen set and household items, to four families in the Pacific whose home has been destroyed as a result of a natural disaster.
But I know that’s a big ask so:
$500 can provide a water harvesting system to supply clean water for 200 families in drought-stricken southern Africa.
$370 will provide 30 schools in South Africa with seeds, watering cans and tools to set up their own food gardens.
$100 is enough to provide medicines to one village in Laos to treat common illnesses and prevent disease.
$70 can provide a traditional birthing attendant in Cambodia with a kit to ensure the safe delivery of village children.
And every dollar counts:
$50 is enough to buy 10 sacks of seed to enable Malawian farming families to grow more drought-tolerant crops.
$20 can provide families in Timor-Leste with vegetable seeds, increasing nutrition and market opportunities.
Please sponsor me & my team: http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Sydney/team/121
Or to find out more about Oxfam and Trailwalker – head here: http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/sydney/
Thanks J
I won’t put names beside donations, but you can see when your amount is posted.
$754 + $50 + $30 + $10 + $100 + $70 + $150
Keep them coming people!
For the second year running, Fitta Bodies had a team of 4 people enter and complete the Oxfam 100km walk for charity. There was a change of team members this year with myself and Frank dropping out to make way for Rachel Newman and Matt Smith to join last year’s walkers Gwen and Mark Jenkins.
It was a gruelling walk as usual, but made all the worse for Rachel by her feet being covered in blisters by the half way mark. Add to this a tight ITB and cramping calves and you can see she was a champion for pushing through where many would have quit. Gwen also had her share of pain with her knees still undergoing physio weeks after the walk was over. Mark pushed through like a trooper making sure he tracked the whole event on his GPS watch and Matt was the wild card, only being added to the team a week before the event and not having completed any of the training walks.
Special mention has to go to Rachel’s dad Bob and sister Katie who did the majority of the support crew. They took on checkpoints 2 & 3 on Friday and 7 & 8 on Saturday. Legend! Darrin Penola offered his good humour and support at checkpoint 7 aswell. Myself, Matt and Shikha helped out on checkpoints 5 & 6 through the night, first greeting the guys at 2am for some food and stretches and then again at 8am for some more food and stretches.
Not only did they do an awesome job with the walk, but they also raised over $5000. A huge part of this money was raised by team mate Tom Carmody who had to drop out at the last minute due to a tonsil infection, but he deserves a massive wrap for his fund raising abilities!!!
I have included a few photos at the checkpoints I was at and here is a link to a couple of professional photos taken out on the trail,
The happy walkers
Smile for the camera
If you are interested in entering the Oxfam 100km walk in 2010, please let me know and we can get started on the next Team Fitta Bodies:)
After our long and arduous 100km trek last year from Brooklyn to Sydney for Oxfam Australia, we have decided to put together a team for 2009.
This year’s team will consist of Tom Carmody, Gwen Jenkins, Mark Jenkins and Rachel Newman.
I will be head of support crew maing sure they are fed and watered, in clean clothes and in high spirits. I am also the team reserve in the odd chance that somebody has to pull out.
The team has already started training by walking various sections of the 100km track each weekend.
Now the walk is a fund raising event and a very worthy one at that, so please log onto the oxfam site Fitta Bodies page and give generously. See link below.
http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Sydney/team/243
100km is not easy and deserves your sponsorship!
The 2008 Oxfam Fitta Bodies Team
Well last Friday and Saturday we organised a 24 hour fitness marathon at our Randwick Personal Training studio and what a success it was, thanks to all of the support from our dedicated clients, we raised $2235. All of which will be donated to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.
We conducted 27 personal training sessions and also got our clients to sponsor us to do specific exercises.
My workout consisted of 60 burpees, 40 roll up to push up, 2 km on the rower, 20 chin ups, 120 push ups, 40 x 1 pood kettlebell snatch each arm, 100 x 1 1/2 pood kettlebell swings, 100 olympic ring dips and 30 sit ups.
That workout earned me $240 thanks to my generous clients who opted to sponsor rather than train.
Once again, thanks to all who participated. Your contributions have gone to a very worthy cause!
Troy Shipsey
Randwick Personal Trainer
I am sure that everyone is aware of the tragic events that took place earlier this month which saw Australia’s worst ever natural disaster.
I am also sure that everyone has already donated to this very, very worthy cause.
So…..
We have decided to host a 24 hour charity fitness and personal training marathon.
This way, you get a little something back for your money, improve the quality of your own life and have a bit of fun at the same time.
We will be running training sessions from 3pm on Friday the 20th March 2009 to 3pm on Saturday the 21st March 2009 at our Randwick Personal Training studio.
We will be donating our time for 24 hours. 100% of the fee for every training session that is conducted in that time will be donated to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.
If you haven’t tried 1 on 1 personal training before, this is your chance. It’s basically a donation and a free session.
Bring your friends, bring your family. We are counting on our regular clients to throw their support behind this awesome event, but we would love to see new faces or faces we haven’t seen in a while. We would also love to have a few corporate sponsors to boost the donations and make our 3am sessions worth while.
We will also take large groups, small groups or 2 on 1 training.
Now for those of you who don’t want to train, you can merely sponsor us to train for you.
I am sure that during the early hours of the morning, I am not going to have many takers for training, so this is when we will train ourselves. We guarantee there will be training conducted all the way through the 24 hour period.
Please take this seriously, it is a very worthy cause.
Please book your time slot NOW, to avoid disappointment.
Feel free to get together friends and family. The more the merrier. Any volunteers for the middle of the night would be greatly appreciated…..
Anybody who is willing to send this to their work colleagues would be greatly appreciated, the larger the audience we reach, the bigger the donation we can make!
Your in Fitness
Troy Shipsey