Cancer touches all of us at some point in our lives. We either know someone who has had it or perhaps have battled the disease ourselves. There are so many fundraising activities and events that raise money for cures and one of them I have come across and been involved in is the Ramsay Health Care Triathlon Pink.
Around the middle of last year I was working one of my random shifts in the maternity ward when a colleague asked me if I was going to do the Pinkie Triathlon? A group of them had done it the previous year and it looked like a lot of fun....AND I could be part of a team! YAY!! :D I am not a swimmer ( I look like a...well I can't say. I just look embarrassing!) and I don't have a bike (woot!) so I decided that the 3km run was a good challenge! I got my team together within the hour and trained over the next few months. By September I was running 3km in 18minutes but on the day of the triathlon I amazed myself by shaving 4 minutes off my training time! It was so much fun and the buzz on the day was electric.
In the past two years Triathlon Pink has raised over $180,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. These fund go directly into funding research into finding a cure and the prevention of breast cancer and I am so proud to have been part of it. If you feel like you want to give it a go just do it!! It's so much fun and they have short courses and fun runs too. :)
http://www.triathlonpink.com.au/
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