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My Progress

Raised $12,586

3,512 moving minutes logged

I haven't set a moving minutes goal yet.

Minutes Moved:

3512 minutes

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 14

Another large day of Striding for Stroke while collecting trash discarded in the park. 2983 steps in total today over 2 sessions. PLUS 4 buckets full of trash collected during one of those two sessions. My powers of deduction from that would indicate people that use the park at weekend have a lower propensity to use the trash bins to dispose of their rubbish. Or possibly there are just more people. Or both things are true..😬 I’ll be honest, I'm now beginning to feel my efforts. But then I’m lucky I'm here to actually feel anything. Following my burst aneurysm leading to a series of strokes, it so easily could have been a different outcome as sadly it is for many. Today's top tip. If you have a splitting headache go to the doctor. Don’t do the man thing where you just say “I’ll wait till it passes”. You may find then it’s you that passes 😢 That’s why I’m doing Stride 4 Stroke. Collecting the trash is a worthwhile side gig to the main event.

S4S D12

Following my visit with the amazing team at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, it was back to park ‘Striding for Stroke’ while collecting 'trash for your cash' today.

It was a beautiful spring day, and initially I was pleasantly surprised by how little rubbish I found, though hopefully something to do with the fact I'd been here for the past week and a half. That changed when I ventured further into the bushes and discovered another treasure trove of crap — in some cases, literally so several discarded dog poo bags joined my collection.

I briefly considered leaving them but opted to do the right thing and picked them up. I soon regretted it when I discovered one was chocka full of ants, now furiously crawling all over my collection bucket! Cue a mad dash in my chair to the nearest bin. Never a dull moment on trash patrol!

Crap crisis adverted after returning, I carried on and filled another two buckets with rubbish.

Another fulfilling day Striding For Stroke while collecting trash for cash — topped off by my first donation from a passing dog walker I got chatting with!

S4S D8

As I’m writing this now on the night of my Stride 4 Stroke Day 9 I can honestly say my legs are beginning to feel the efforts from the last days. It was though another good and big day. I achieved just under 3000 steps coming in at a total of 2964. This has been my largest achievement so far this campaign to date. It was also spread over 2 striding sessions. One in the local neighbourhood before and after lunch, the other down at the park where once again I collected and disposed of properly two full buckets of discarded trash. 

I’m certainly proud of my striding efforts. I am though also as proud of my cleaning up efforts 

For those that have already donated my 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 $8k. I just achieved my $6k target so have moved the goal posts up just a wee bit higher..

S4S D7

I’ll be honest, after 7 days I was going to take a day off yesterday . I had a physio session scheduled for first thing in the morning and thought that would wipe me out. Finishing that and getting home I then took a walk to my local cafe for lunch which was 0.6km over 22mins. I thought then I was done for the day. However the afternoon's good weather had different ideas. As the saying goes, make hay while the sun shines, so I gathered my two buckets and my pick up stick and headed back to my local park. A further 0.5km over 25 mins and I’d filled my target two buckets with trash. Appropriately disposed of it was a good job done. Then it was home time for dinner :) Today 1.27km over a total of 2186 steps and as importantly 2 more buckets of trash collected and properly disposed off.

S4S D7

Day 7 S4S update:

I was just about to leave the house when the heavens opened again. So much for accurate weather forecasts. Unperturbed with a quick change of plan I defaulted to HighPoint shopping centre for a stride round there. Being undercover in the rain is not a problem. Though being a shopping centre I’m not going to pick up any trash today either 🙁

A good walk and for the first time using Strava to record my route. What this showed me is that walking in a straight line requires some more work. Though I could put that down to shopper dodging ;)

3.35km over 51mins covering 2970 steps undercover from the rain so pleased with that 🙂

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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Michael Mcnamara

Well done Mark, stellar effort mate given your mobility challenges, you should be very proud!

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Robert Pearshouse

Great work Marky…. Well done 👍

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Anonymous

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

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Clive Quick

Fantastic exercise and clean up, Mark! Well done

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James Wright

Great effort, mate. Showing great Hoggies spirit.

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Jennifer Atkins

Amazing work Mark ❤️

Well done Mark!

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David Fisken

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Bart Jeurissen

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Pasquale Franzese

Well done Mark fantastic to see you up and about good luck ❤️

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Francesca Park

Well done Mark, a great achievement. !

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Helen Pham

Keep it up, Mark! You're doing an amazing job, and it’s genuinely inspiring to watch

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Generous Stroke Foundation Supporter

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Dylan Flood

Champion! Hope you are well mate

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Bouncer

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Charlie Brown (aka A)

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Sally Simson

Well done, both for your fundraising as well as your rubbish collection. Pity not all could collect rubbish as they walk!!

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Wilma Waldron

Come and do Barassie Beach with the Litter Pickers here

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Keep up the effort, good luck.

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Ash

Keep going Mark, your have making great inroads

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Batman Batman

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Anonymous

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What a legend.

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Evan Brereton

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Anonymous

Great progress!

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Simon Benns

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Chris Wills

Keep up the great work!!

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Richard

Keep it going Mark!

Fantastic, Mark!

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Anonymous

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Anna Robert

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Cate Bennett

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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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Kerith S

Well done, Mark!

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Charlie Brown

I had to make it pass $11000! Hence the top-up

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Mark Waldron

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My Activity Tracking

My Progress

Minutes Moved:

3512 minutes

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

My Updates

Day 14

S4S D12

S4S D8

S4S D7

S4S D7

Day 5

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

Trash collection buckets at the ready

So far I have helped Stroke Foundation deliver…

Thank you to my Sponsors

Simon Upton

Vincenzo Lanza

Greg Cave

Michael Mcnamara

Robert Pearshouse

Anonymous

Clive Quick

James Wright

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