The challenge is under way and already I'm achieving some goals. One was being active every day and I'm going to stick to that one no matter what. Being active doesn't mean running a marathon, or lifting your body weight, or doing three spin classes back to back. It means being active. And for me that's mainly walking at the moment. At lunch, with the girls in the office. We walk and talk and solve the problems of the the world. Three birds with one stone.
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But I know it has to be more than that. I hadn't seen trainer Lee Campbell for a while, not since our initial catch up, where I was so pathetic I couldn't lift a 6kg medicine ball over my head many times at all. Call me, he said, as we were leaving Monday's launch of the Heart Foundation's Canberra Celebrity Heart Challenge, and we'll sort something out. Dear god, I suppose that's what I'll have to do.
The launch was held in the Sports Hub at the University of Canberra, where the Brumbies and the Capitals all hang on. It's a superb facility – UC Vice Chancellor Professor Stephen Parker, a fellow challenger, is rightly proud of it all.
No one probably noticed the woman working out inside, she had arms to die for. Linda Hamilton, circa Terminator 2, 1991 (we were all wearing retro red head bands so I was feeling nostalgic). Lee, I want arms like that.
But it's not all about that. It's about making small choices, sticking by them, doing your best every day, and the next day, if you happen to slip up.
We're all human. People had to miss the launch because they were at work, people had their kids their waiting to take them to school. None of us could skip too well at all.
But we'll give it a go.
And donate too at https://canberrahearts.everydayhero.com/au/karen-1
Please.
