An active Easter
Published 9 months, 3 weeks ago in My life.One of the great things about this Challenge is the way it has been embraced by so many families and individuals, many of whom are developing all sorts of novel ways to get their 30 minutes of activity in.
A great example of this was brought to my attention last week and involves a group of presenters on community radio station SYN FM. The station’s breakfast shift is hosted by three young people who have joined the thousands of us in taking up the Challenge, only the trio did their first 30 minute session while live on air.
They posted their great effort on YouTube and it should remind us that if they are able to get their 30 minutes done while hosting a live show, we should have no excuses!
On the family front this week brought fairly good results. It started strongly on Sunday with Meagan and I taking Sophie on her very first outing to the Melbourne Zoo. While Sophie didn’t quite know what to make of the elephants (we think she thought they were giant dogs!), the outing enabled us to get in well over an hour of walking.
The next morning, to the surprise of my staff, I arrived at work in my runners and shorts on having completed a 30 minute early morning walk around the Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens, while yesterday the family headed to the pool again.
While all this walking and swimming has been relatively trouble-free, my first real test came this morning (Thursday) when I joined Melbourne Vixens vice-captain Bianca Chatfield for 45 minutes of indoor rock climbing in the CBD. With the Vixens first game just weeks away (April 5) Bianca was in peak fitness, but I must admit my forearms and calves have been feeling fairly sore all afternoon!
Meagan, Sophie and I are spending a couple of days in South Gippsland over the Easter weekend, and with all the region’s beautiful parklands and walking trails I am tipping that the Merlino’s will have completed over one third of the Challenge when I post again!
Have a safe Easter.
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I bet there were no chocolate easter eggs in your house Sir! My motto for preventing such temptations in to remember “In the mouth today, on the hips tomorrow”….ah well you have youth on your side to burn up the excesses…..
I hoped you enjoyed South Gippsland and you stopped off in Leongatha and gave the traders some business…The whole area is quite picturesque. Did you stop off and play 18 holes of golf at Korrumburra Golf Course?. Now that is real heart attack country! As a caddy I survived to the tenth and walked off leaving his nibs to pull his own bag!