657.4km - crossing the finish line <3
1 December 2023
With 5min left of November at 11.55pm yesterday I finished the final kilometre! Something that seemed impossible a few weeks ago, and which has been the hardest, best, special, most rewarding and silly thing I’ve ever set out to do. 30 days and 30 half marathons. Some days the overall distance got a bit quirky around cricket mahi, but ran everyday and completed the 657.4km. Totalling 42 runs, and nearly 97 hours. Yesterday we also passed the $2,000 raised mark, and that’s so wildly humbling.
The number 6574 was the driving factor behind how and why this became days measured in half marathons, as those are the days my nana lived positively with, and managed, PD. So positively; she had her ‘Parky days’ and when things were harder, especially in the last few years, but she never stopped and kept being the incredible woman that was Ruth Sutherland, Nana Toot Toot. Her love, ABBA Gold, and knowing the good this money raised can do has powered me through the hardest parts of this month. It’s hard to not be positive if trying to do something for nana!
I don’t think it’s quite sunk in what’s been achieved but the biggest thank you to everyone who has donated or read more about PD or about this journey. The page stays open for another 6 weeks if people still want to be involved and donate, or learn a bit more.
As I ran down the hill to home last night listening to Boney M. I knew she'd be smiling, for we all do when we think of her. Love you nana, this will forever be for you x
