Ben Donohue was a 9year old boy who died in 2005 from a brain tumour. His mother works at Hawker College and since he died the school have annually organised a Fun Run to raise money for brain tumour research, the ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group and Make-A-Wish Australia. This is the fourth year of the event which is a 6km fun run and walk round most of Lake Ginninderra. Today the conditions were ideal with cloud cover to start and a very mild temperature in the early 20s. Rachelle and I decided to put in a late entry and arrived in plenty of time to find quite a number of familiar faces. It was a pleasant run with a very large crowd of entrants of all ages and levels of fitness from the very serious runners setting PBs to those who participated for the fun. Every entrant helped raise money for a very worthy cause. We had fun and later enjoyed a lovely lunch by the lake, yummy food, good coffee but slow service. However there was plenty of good conversation- it was very pleasant indeed!
Total distance: 6km
Time taken: 33:20
Average pace per km: 5:32
Calories burned: 353
Well done! I'd seen the run mentioned but had no idea of why it was called that. Ben's family must be blown away by the support. Good on you Canberra runners!
ReplyDeleteA good run for a good cause... sounds like you are on the way back.
ReplyDeleteWhat? I missed a lovely lunch by the lake, yummy food, good coffee and slow conversation? You know how to make a bloke jealous!
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