Run2Heal News - from Allison Roe

Auckland Run2Heal NEWS

***Final Programme for Run2Heal Auckland and Late Registration information will be emailed out to you Thursday night!***

• Stopping New Zealand’s Number One Killer - TONIGHT
• Auckland Run2Heal – this weekend!
• Win an Audi or Cruise with the Cuddly Cook 
• Your Friends will make a Difference
• Entertainers at Run2Heal
• Running Faster After Childbirth – Gold Medallist

Stopping New Zealand’s No 1 Killer – Thomas Levy, Cardiologist, Tonight!!!
There is talk of creating sustainable health systems and the only way to do this is with a focus on prevention.  More and more there is greater cooperation between main stream medicine and complementary therapies.  Health professionals and people everywhere are turning to nutrient therapies as they offer a simple, inexpensive and sustainable means of preventing ill heath and a myriad of life style diseases.  A leading Cardiologist and speaker visiting New Zealand for one public lecture only is Dr Thomas Levy.  In fact he is a lawyer, turned Cardiologist who has thoroughly researched and practically applied the benefits of nutrient therapies in not just controlling but reversing heart disease. For doctors, health professionals and anyone interested in their family health, hearing Thomas Levy is a MUST

Tonight, Wednesday 26 April at 7.30 p.m.
Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna
Tickets available at the door - $15

See you there!

Auckland Run2Heal – This Weekend – 30 April is now closer than a Schick intuition shave, but there’s still time to enter Run2Heal Auckland.  Our order for a sunny day has been granted by  predictweather.com.  Expect 15 to 18 degrees and if you were waiting to see what the weather is like before entering, wait no more.  Sign on at www.run2heal.co.nz  before Friday 8 p.m. and you’re in.

Win an Audi or Cruise with the Cuddly Cook
There is huge interest in who will be that unbelievably lucky person to drive away in a brand new Audi A3 Sportback. Cruising behind the wheel of an Audi according to Annabelle White, is ‘truly an out of body experience’.   The Audi winner will be announced at Run2Heal Auckland.

Only one person will win the car but there is room for about 12 to accompany Annabelle White our own Cuddly Cook, MC and Run2Heal event enthusiast on a cruise enjoying the delights of the Mediterranean!  Mediterranean cruising and Italian living combined to create one fantastic holiday experience hosted by Annabelle.  Capture the essence of Italy and cruise to Casablanca, Santa Marghertia, Portofino, Cinque Terre. Cruise Spain, Morocco and Portugal. Departs September 22, 2006.  Fly, cruise, land tour from $6220 per person.  Hurry!!!  Email abelle@xtra.co.nz

Your Friends will make a Difference!
If everyone could encouraged just one friend to join them at Run2Heal; it would simply double our contribution to women’s health initiatives!!!  

If you’re feeling energetic and are able to recruit 4 of your friends or work mates before the weekend to make up a team of 5 (yourself included) then you will qualify for a Bendon lingerie voucher worth $50.  Everyone who enters Run2Heal can take their number or proof of entry (email) to a Bendon store for a $10 discount off the retail purchase price of a Bendon Sport Bra.  

ASB pedometers are still available from any branch of the ASB in Auckland or on the run2heal.co.nz website with proceeds to the trust. Right now the Allison Roe Trust is supporting three breast cancer initiatives, a Maori women’s health road show and an environmental project.  Details on the website www.run2heal.co.nz

Entertainers and Loads of Prizes at Run2Heal
The fabulous Lady Killers (Tina Cross, Jackie Clarke, Taisha and Suzanne Lynch) are ready to sing their hearts out for women’s health as are our young performers led by promising young singer Hamish Polsen.  There will be Ceroc Dancers and the Les Mills aerobics team.  Our MC’s Annabelle White the cuddly cook and John McKenzie are all pumped and raring to go and give away loads of sponsor products.

Running Faster After Childbirth – Inspiring Gold Medal Mother
Kerryn McCann the Australian gold medal winner at the Commonwealth Games Marathon in Sydney sends her best wishes to all participating in Run2Heal this Sunday!  

I caught up with the 37 year old mother of two last week in Auckland.  We ran together; I felt like the incredible hulk towering over the very dainty, petite Kerryn.  The beauty of having been a competitive runner is that you never lose your ability to be able to talk and run at the same time.  This is what I learned.

Kerryn showed promise as a young runner but during those mid teen years she let athletics go.  She bounced back at about 19 and never looked back.  However, it wasn’t until years later after Kerryn became a Mother that her running times dramatically improved!  She gained 16kg’s on her tiny frame during pregnancy and over the following year with consistent training she regained her svelte form and calved minutes off all her personal best running times.   She said that ‘being a Mum meant that life changed forever and children provided another focus besides training. Motherhood made me feel more relaxed going into races as my family was now the priority.”

During pregnancy Kerryn ran gently for 7 months 2 or 3 times a week.  Following childbirth she rested for 7-8  weeks to adjust before returning to a pattern of running and walking three times a week to begin, gradually increasing the work load as her body felt capable.
 
Eating plenty and healthily meant that Kerryn was able to train regularly and breast- feed her fist baby, son Benton, for 14 months! 

Within 2 years of childbirth Kerryn had carved an incredible 8 minutes off her personal best marathon time and posted personal bests for all other distances too! 

Run2Heal Prize Draw
Congratulations !!!. Prize winners are randomly selected across all Run2Heal entries nation wide.  Anyone who entered a Run2Heal event is eligible to win a prize.  Here is the latest list of prizes and lucky prize winners!   There’ll be one more draw before Sunday.  You have to be entered in a Run2Heal run or walk to be a winner!

Thanks to all our Run2Heal supporters, to the sponsors, volunteers and to all of you who put your toes on the line to run or walk five or ten kilometers to raise funds for Womens Health.   You are special!!!