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I’m taking on the challenge of Stride4Stroke and raising funds for Stroke Foundation!

Hi there,

I’m taking on Stride4Stroke this September and raising funds for Stroke Foundation to help create a future with fewer Strokes. At the same time I want to make a difference to our local environment. 

Almost 47,000 Australians will have a Stroke this year — that’s one every 11 minutes.

This year, every $11 raised represents one Stroke expected in Australia. I’m aiming to make as much impact as I can — and I’d love your support.

Your donation will help fund vital programs and services that:

  • Prevent Stroke through education and awareness

  • Support people and families when Stroke happens

  • Help survivors of Stroke recover and rebuild their lives

In addition to Striding, I’ve given myself the added challenge to collect and bin a minimum of two buckets of litter each day from my local park by picking up the waste people have left behind while doing my Striding.

16% to 22% of all reported and collected litter comes from public parks and bushlands. Plastic items make up over 80% of this waste, with single-use beverage containers, takeaway packaging, and cigarette butts standing as the most frequently dumped items. Rather than just striding by it and then letting it go in the river, I want to do something else to make a difference. So I’m combining my “Stride 4 Stroke” activities with collecting park trash, hopefully for your generous cash with every dollar raised going to The Stroke Foundation.

Every dollar truly makes a difference.

Thank you so much for supporting me — together, we can help change the story of Stroke and the environment we live in.

My Updates

Day 5

Not a great day to be striding round the park due to the wet weather. I had therefore to adapt and evolve to counter the inclement circumstances. As such I took my myself to my local Bunnings Superstore and tasked myself with walking up and down every isle and therefore undercover. 

My local Bunnings is a MEGA store ie on two levels however downstairs at the end of the indoor area is the cafeteria so I set this as my target, and end of stride reward 🙂

34 isles and 2914 steps later objective achieved followed by a coffee and half a sausage roll and half a slice of carrot cake (half as I gave half of each to Harish who had accompanied me on this adventure). All done under the cover, sheltered AND with the added benefit of not buying anything, apart from indoor plant food which was needed. 

Day 4

It was a beautiful Spring morning to get an early start on my Stride 4 Stroke while collecting trash for your cash campaign Day 4. Today I covered 2463 steps while collecting 3 buckets full of trash from my local park. In fairness I’d identified one spot yesterday that was absolutely littered so I hit that first. I filled one bucket in about 20 minutes. The other two were filled while striding through the park.
Choice finds today were one really solid metal bike chain and single football boot. The footy boot went in the bin. The bike chain I left out so someone could upcycle it.
Forecast for today (D5) is predominantly rain. If that transpires to be the case I’m defaulting to doing a big hoof round Bunnings looking at things I really don’t need to buy. Further park trash will need to wait a day or two.
In my case my thanks though to everyone who has lent their support to this. I’ve so far raised just over $4,500 which is quite unbelievable, huge thanks!
For those yet to chip-in you can donate here https://tinyurl.com/chipinplease and help me push through my new stretch target of $6k.
All money raised goes directly to The Stroke Foundation 🙂Thanks in advance.
Also If you see me come and say hi.

Day 3

Bit of a late start due to the weather (as we say in Scotland it was phishing doon). So I took a break and h
ad a coffee in a Riverside cafe till the rain passed. Which it did about 45 mins later so then still managed 90 mins of bush whacking for trash leading to two more full buckets collected and rescued from the local park to the bin 🙂
I don’t though have my step count for Day 3 as I turned off my device before recording it. Rookie mistake.
I did though write to my local Mayor @mayor.rose.iser suggesting the benefit of placing more trash bins in the park. There are only two quite a distance apart and none beside the main walking path or playing fields which doesn’t really lend itself to proper and easy refuse disposal. I know because that’s where I’m picking up the majority of trash . As the expression goes “one man's rubbish is another man's riches”.
In my case my thanks though to everyone who has lent their support to this. I’ve so far raised just over $4,000 which is incredible.
For those yet to do so you can donate here https://tinyurl.com/chipinplease and help me push through my new stretch target of $6k
Thanks all, now where are my buckets..

Day 2

Stride 4 Stroke Update 2:

Another successful day completing 2781 steps with a further 2 FULL buckets of rubbish collected. I reversed the path I took yesterday through the park as my observation from Day 1 was that there was considerably more litter at the top end of the path beside the tennis courts than down at the bottom. I think this is due to the fact it’s not as open so more bushes to catch stuff blowing around.. 🤔 And as the bottom part of the park is next to the river, it may sadly mean most of the rubbish gets blown into the river which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid.

Thankfully it was also considerably less windy today so I wasn’t ‘chasing’ things around as much. Might also be the reason my step count was lower even though I walked further today as after binning my two bucket collection I continued on along the river for a while :)

My thanks though to everyone who has lent their support as I’ve so far raised just over $2,300. For those yet to do so you can donate here https://tinyurl.com/chipinplease as I have another 4 weeks to go with this challenge 


Day 1

A good though admittedly tiring start to my ‘Stride 4 Stroke’ while tidying up ‘Trash for Cash’ campaign.

I achieved my target of over 2000 steps putting in around 3000 in total on what was quite a windy and blustery day. That led to my 2nd challenge. My much prepared buckets for the trash I was collecting do not stand up well against the wind. The smaller bits of rubbish would regularly blow out meaning a lot of chasing about and recollection. There is no point in picking it up just to let it go again. I’ll put some thought into my system for this morning’s efforts due to start in a couple of hours.

However my Step and Trash target achieved 🙂

Trash collection buckets at the ready

Good to go for my start of Stride 4 Stroke tomorrow :)

So far I have helped Stroke Foundation deliver…

Initial advice and support from a health professional on StrokeLine

A stroke recovery pack to three survivors of stroke

Training to a StrokeSafe volunteer to deliver community talks.

Funding to stroke researchers to find the next game-changer in stroke.

Thank you to my Sponsors

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Simon Upton

Love your work Mark!

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Vincenzo Lanza

Go hard good buddy.

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Greg Cave

Don’t let any more blow away bigun

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Anonymous

So impressed by your recovery, determination and advocacy.. Hope you smash that goal.

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Anonymous

From me to me to kickstart my fund raising :)

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Tony Mathews

Keep it up going well

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Phil Binns

Great to see you going around again Mark!

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Nicole Pelchen

Well done Mark!

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Bart Jeurissen

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Jules

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Barry Vase

Keep going Mark and super proud of you

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Alisdair Brown

Very proud of your efforts to recover

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Michael Morrow

Go for it Mark - you are truly inspirational.

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Anonymous

You better get over 60000 steps

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Mark Waldron (boston)

Best of luck Mark 👏

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Dylan Flood

Champion! Hope you are well mate

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Bryan

Give em hell mate ...

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Silvano Gasparini

All the best mate

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Marty Whitby

Great work Marko💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

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Rob King

Hopefully it’s clean waste!

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Frank Mcgrath

Good on you Mark!

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Steph Stevenson

Good on you, Mark — turning your own experience into something so positive for others. Always an inspiration! 😊

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Alexandra Weiss

Go Mark! Always inspirational.

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Brian Mcgee

Massive effort Mark. Well done

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Raoul

Nice one bruvver!

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Shrek

Onya Haggis, the Tigers are with you every step!

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Stretch And Family

Once a tiger always a tiger

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

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Russell Denning

Nice work big man ! cheers Ruski

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Glenn Dalziel

Go get'em Tiger 🟡⚫️

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The Kisselbachs

G'wan yersel Mark!. Much love and admiration from The Kisselbachs

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Mont Wealth

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Deano

Keep strong mate great work too bad the council won’t do it

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Kevin Sharkie

Supporting your every endeavour Marky

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Carmela And Graeme

Way to go Mark, really impressed!

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Jon Enabler

MarcUS we are with you bro!

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Anonymous

Excellent work Mark!

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Blackbox Rts

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Daren Mckennay (chips)

Great cause and effort mate. Love your work!

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Claudia Cespedes

Happy to support your cause, beyond proud of everything you have done! You're one of a kind!

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Joanne Charles

An inspiration to us all. Great effort for a great cause. Well done you! Xx

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Doug Van Arkel

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Richard

Keep it going Mark!

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Ken Hoggies

All the best Mark Ken @ Hoggies

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Pepe

Go you canny Scotsman, hope you can collect some lost $50 notes for your bucket

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Paul Toohey

Luv ya work big fella

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Bronwyn Fulton

Keep going Mark!!!

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Odette

Great stuff cuz! Proud of you 🫶🏼

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Cate Bennett

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Pankaj Patel

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Benjamin Mathieson

Great effort bro, and great cause. You continue to inspire me, Mark.

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Charlie Solomon

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Lisa Landsburgh

Well done Mark, an inspiring feat. Xx

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Kieran Curtain

Thanks Mark for cleaning up the neighbourhood. Legend!

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Sally Johnston

Officially a plogger! X Keep on picking x

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