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Commonwealth Games Gold Run

April 18, 2018 by Vicky Leave a Comment

The Commonwealth Games have been underway for the last two weeks. The Games are a meeting of athletes from Countries all over the Commonwealth to compete in a range of sporting activities. Naomi and I entered into the lottery style drawer about a year ago before we were even close to living in Brisbane, luckily we subsequently did move so we are nice and close for the events.

The games has meant that I very luckily got to spend two weekends in a row on the beautiful Gold Coast both with my friend Naomi (and staying in her beautiful family apartment) when we went to watch the Netball and with Naomi and the Aussie when we went to watch the Rugby Sevens match.

I also had the opportunity to “participate” in an event during the Games called the Gold Run.

The Gold Run was a 5km fun run held on a section of the Marathon course at the same time the Marathon runners were participating and which members of the public could enter for a fee. We got to start and end the race at the Marathon start line and received this nifty medal for participating!

The rules of the run were extensive and included the requirement that you must be able to complete the event in about 50 minutes because whilst the event was scheduled for an hour, the number of people participating meant it could take 10 minutes to get over the start line. If you didn’t finish in time you would be pulled from the course so you don’t interfere with the marathon finish.

I will admit that whilst I am a heck of a lot fitter than I was a year ago I was terrified I would not finish the race in time. In the run up to the event I dragged Naomi along to park run where we tried to get our time under 50 minutes. I managed in the trial runs to get to slightly over 50 minutes so thought it would be doable.

In the end I finished in 45.09 minutes and was thrilled both by my time and also that I managed to compete in this kind of event. I really pushed myself hard and was exhausted at the end even though it was only “5km” as I wanted to beat the cut off time and also my personal best and I did it and I was so so happy!!!

It was a once in a lifetime event an I now have the tshirt and medal to show for it and my fitness journey as well.

Travel Tribe Blog Hop Last Day to Enter

January 4, 2015 by Vicky Leave a Comment

Today is the last day to enter the Travel Tribe Blog Hop competition to win a $50 Amazon gift card.

All you have to do is comment on each member of the Tribe’s post for the competition and complete the Rafflecopter entry form which you can find on Andi from Misadventures with Andi’s post for the hop.

Good luck and enjoy reading everyone’s festive posts before the contest ends on Jan 4 at 11:59 PM PST!

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Photo Bombing

May 8, 2014 by Vicky Leave a Comment

Oooh it’s been a very hectic week this week between work and trying to get visa stuff done, do photography stuff and just have a good night!

Last night me and the Aussie had to dash from work (of course as I had to leave dead on 5pm the day was crazy hectic and it was a tight squeeze to get out on time but I made it just!) to go meet a couple of his friends who are providing us with Statutory Declarations for the visa application so I could give them forms and explain what they needed to do.

Then when that had finished I dashed to the Camera Club to attend the Committee Meeting before the club meeting as I have joined the Committee now! It was quite fun getting more involved and helping decide what the club would get up to.

On The Prowl

We then had our normal meeting which is normally made up of a talk from someone about photography, looking at some photos (yep shocking I know) and then judging for the monthly competition.

This months theme was food for thought so every photo I took I would ask the Aussie if he thought it represented “food for thought”, occasionally it did! The competition also has open categories for colour and monochrome photos as well as postcard sized (6×4) and digital theme and colour photos.

Food for Thought(2)

I entered a few, ok 14 photos, across the theme and open categories and managed to secure two 1st places, 4 second places and one 3rd place from all of my photos. I was very pleased as I really thought about the photos I would enter. A selection of my “winning” photos are dotted around this post.

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I am also going to enter some photos in the competition at the Fred’s Pass Rural Show which is happening next weekend. The themed photo is “rural life” and I chose the picture below for this entry. I’m not sure about it but it’s the best I could come up with before I have to drop my photos off tomorrow.

Dinner Time(1)

Other than entering photos in the competition at the Camera Club, this is the first time I have really participated in a competition with my photos so I’m a bit nervous. I’ll see how things go and if nothing else it is a good excuse to go to the show which looks like it might be fun and a good photo opportunity or two!

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