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A 35KM CHALLENGE TO CURE MITO

Adelaide ǀ 31 OCTOBER

A 35KM CHALLENGE TO CURE MITO

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🌍🌎🌏Did you know this week is World Mitoch

🌍🌎🌏Did you know this week is World Mitochondrial Disease Week?🌍🌎🌏

🙏As a member of the Mito Movement, we wanted to let you know about this very special week! Around the world, the week of 19-25 September is dedicated to raising awareness about mitochondrial disease (mito).

And by taking part in The Bloody Long Walk, you’re helping to increase recognition of this devastating disease, so thank YOU for standing with us to bring mito to its knees.

👀If you head to World Mitochondrial Disease Week @worldmitodiseaseweek you can see what’s happening this week, along with the “Faces of Mito” campaign where we’re shining a spotlight on the strength of people impacted by mito and their families, from around the world.

💚11-year-old Zain is one of these amazing, strong, children. Diagnosed with mito as a result of a defect in gene MTPAP, Zain faces many challenges but despite this, he is excelling at school and finding ways to overcome many of the difficulties he faces. 💚

#wmdw #mitochondrialdisease #mito #mitoawarenessweek #mitoawareness #lightupformito #jointhemovement

💛😃 Meet @wilaydesigns 😃🖤Jazz and Krist

💛😃 Meet @wilaydesigns 😃🖤Jazz and Kristal Matthews, who are aboriginal artists and sisters living and working on Ngarrindjeri Country/South Australia.

🌳 "Wilay" means possum in their Ngunawal language and is a fitting name as they started this journey in loving memory of their baby brother, LJ who passed away from mito. LJ would often be called "my little possum" by his family. Wilay Designs donates a portion of all art sales to the Mito Foundation, and they have participated in The Bloody Long Walk Adelaide and volunteered. 🙏

💚 19- 25 September is World Mitochondrial Disease Week. (check out @worldmitodiseaseweek ) Throughout September, Jazz will be walking 350km (!) 😲- knowing that each step is important in helping raise much needed funds and awareness. They will also be releasing limited prints and donating all the proceeds.

🙏 Thank you to Wilay Designs so much for being part of Mito Movement!🙏

🎨 Please check out their amazing artworks and products @wilaydesigns 💚
https://www.wilaydesigns.com/

Woohoo! That's a wrap on the Brisbane Bloody Long

Woohoo! That's a wrap on the Brisbane Bloody Long Walk. What an incredible day. 💚

Thank you so much to all the incredible Bloody Long Walkers today that took up the 35km challenge today... you smashed it! 💪 🎉

#bloodylongwalk #35km #walktocuremito #brisbane #australia #mitofoundation #thankyou

Some of our Bloody Long Walkers smashing their 35k

Some of our Bloody Long Walkers smashing their 35km challenge in Brisbane today! 🎉👏 💚 🏃

#bloodylongwalk #areyouupforit #35km #walktocuremito #brisbane #mitofoundation

Round of applause for all our AMAZING volunteers!

Round of applause for all our AMAZING volunteers! 👏 👏 👏

We couldn’t do it without you! 💚

#volunteers #bloodylongwalk #35km #walktocuremito #brisbane #mitofoundation

Congratulations to our first finisher Shane Steele

Congratulations to our first finisher Shane Steele today in the Brisbane Bloody Long Walk, completing the 35km challenge in 3 hrs 48 mins. Well done Shane! 🎉

#bloodylongwalk #areyouupforit #35km #walktocuremito #brisbane #mitofoundation

💚 Our wonderful Brisbane team ready to cheer on

💚 Our wonderful Brisbane team ready to cheer on all the amazing people taking on The Bloody Long Walk today! WooHoo! 🎉 🎉

#bloodylongwalk #areyouupforit #35km #walktocuremito #mitofoundation

Here we go Brisbane! 🏃 Good luck to all our a

Here we go Brisbane! 🏃

Good luck to all our amazing Bloody Long Walkers taking on the challenge today...you've got this! 💪 💚

#46200steps #bloodylongwalk #35km #areyouupforit? #walktocuremito #australia #mitofoundation

🎉A BIG THANK YOU to our Bloody Long Walk Brisba

🎉A BIG THANK YOU to our Bloody Long Walk Brisbane supporting partner, @fancyplants_au ❤️

😍This Sunday 5 September, they will be giving out samples of their incredibly tasty plant-based snacks to our walkers at the finish area. After your 35km challenge, all you have to do is rest up and enjoy a fancy snack 😋

👀Find out more about Fancy Plants snacks below;
https://fancyplants.com/au

#bloodylongwalk #mitofoundation #areyoupforit #jointhemitomovement #brisbane #partners #FancyPlants #PlantLoversUnite

🙌 Meet amazing Kassam Mahomed!🙌 He is walkin

🙌 Meet amazing Kassam Mahomed!🙌 He is walking 35km in The Bloody Long Walk Brisbane. 😃He told us why he wanted to join the walk....

"We have witnessed first-hand various kinds of disabilities – Rhodesia and South Africa during their liberation struggle, then Afghanistan and more recently, in Palestine. Large numbers of people maimed and struggling with little or no support. As an Obstetrician, I also come across babies that are born with various kinds of defects and disabilities.

So, I did not have to think twice when one of my colleagues mentioned The Bloody Long Walk. I registered and sent contacts to my Muslim brothers whom I meet during prayers, my golfing buddies, my colleagues at work. And I was overwhelmed. I was not surprised though, as these same people support so many charitable organisations. 🙏

As Australians, we have been blessed. We have so much tolerance and respect for one another no matter our colour, ethnicity or religion for as human beings we all have the same purpose in life; to live in peace and harmony and help wherever and whenever we can.

Training for the walk has been challenging, as I have never before done such a long walk. But the exercise program on the website has been very helpful and the area around Ipswich Hospital where I work certainly tests one with its up and down roads! 🚶

💚 All I can say is that when our friends see us exerting ourselves for The Bloody Long Walk and see why we're doing it, they have no hesitation in supporting us. Certainly, having a caring community in which I live and the colleagues with whom I work, has been a blessing."

🎉 Kassam has already raised $6,986 to bring mito to its knees! Thank you so much for raising awareness and these much needed funds to find a cure for mito.

🥳 A BIG THANK YOU to our Bloody Long Walk Morni

🥳 A BIG THANK YOU to our Bloody Long Walk Mornington Peninsula supporting partner, Smoothies R Us at the @peninsula.lifestylecentre !

🥤 They will be offering walkers an electrolyte drink to fuel their muscles and keep them moving during the 35km challenge. Mmmm so pumped!! 😋

#bloodylongwalk #mitofoundation #areyoupforit #jointhemitomovement #partners #morningtonpeninsula #melborne #peninsulalifestylecentre

💚 We're thinking of you and hope you're staying

💚 We're thinking of you and hope you're staying safe and keeping your spirits up during this difficult time.

😃 Your awesome Captain of the Mito Movement, Noah, wanted to get in touch with a message of encouragement. Noah has recently been through his 5th lockdown in Melbourne since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but he hasn't let this hurdle get him down or dampen his zest for life. ⭐️

🤲 If, like Noah, you've had to deal with multiple lockdowns, we hope you're ok and still managing to get outside for a walk and a change of scenery each day. Because there's nothing better than stretching your legs and getting some fresh air and exercise when you've been cooped up inside. And it's the perfect training if your 35km Bloody Long Walk is later in the year! 😊

🙏 THANK YOU for your ongoing support to bring mito to its knees! 🙏

😎Team Elton took their own “remote plan B”

😎Team Elton took their own “remote plan B” version of The Bloody Long Walk in Albury to raise much needed funds and awareness for mito!

💚 Team members Alice, Nicholas, Simone and Ann are registered in the Sydney North event. And as they just couldn’t bear to wait, decided to do their walk on Sunday 18 July, the date the event was originally scheduled.

Alice and Nicholas left home at 8am and walked along the Wagirra Trail to Wonga Wetlands. Simone and Ann marched their own way and joined them at the monument.📸 They continued around Horseshoe and had three trips to the monument to make the walk 35km ish! They then called in to a local cafe Frankie’s on the fourth trip for coffee and Bacon & Egg rolls ☕

They were back home at 4:40pm having sore feet and aching legs. but, THEY DID IT! What a fantastic team! 🤩

🙏 A huge THANK YOU to Team Elton for supporting the mito community and raising over $1,392 so far! We are very grateful for your support 🥰

😎 HELLO Bloody Long Walkers!!🥳 We are in nee

😎 HELLO Bloody Long Walkers!!🥳 We are in need of some bloody brilliant volunteers for the Brisbane event on Sunday 5 September✌🏼and the Mornington Peninsula event on Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 September. 🤠Our volunteers are vital to the success of The Bloody Long Walk events and can assist with registrations, event operations and logistics and/or traffic marshalling to get our walkers across the finish line!

👟 Participating in the walk? Why not invite your friends and family to volunteer on the day so they can cheer you along? 🙌 Please share this post with your friends!

💚 Interested? Link in bio to join us!💚

💚The Bloody Long Walk COVIDSafe event plans are

💚The Bloody Long Walk COVIDSafe event plans are in place and are in line with relevant local health advice, to ensure our participants, volunteers, supporters and local communities are safe and protected. We ran a number of Bloody Long Walks last year using the new COVIDSafe protocols and all went swimmingly - we've got this!! 🙌

Here's what you can expect:

👟[Pre-Event]👟
You have already chosen an arrival time which will ensure limited numbers of people are onsite at any one time. A safety briefing will be sent to you online a few days prior to the event which contains our COVIDSafe procedures.

🌞[At the Start]🌞
All staff will be wearing masks and hand sanitisers will be available.The bib collection / check-in area will support physical distancing. Check-in and go: as soon as you are checked in you can start your challenge, there's no unnecessary waiting around!

👣[On Route]👣
Our walkers are always spread out as the walk can take anywhere from 3hrs to 10hrs to complete the challenge. Water refills and medical support are available at each checkpoint.

🥳[At the finish]🥳
We will cheer you across the finish line ! After you have caught your breath we kindly ask that you head home and rest up☕️

👀We are closely monitoring the current COVID situation across the country and will advise you by email straight away if there are any changes to the event you have registered for.

😎Stay safe, keep up the training and we look forward to seeing you at the start line!

🧐 Here’s a fast fact about The Bloody Long Wa

🧐 Here’s a fast fact about The Bloody Long Walk! 🧐
It will take the average person 46,200 steps to complete The Bloody Long Walk! That’s 8.5 times further than you walk in an average day! Hey… at least it’s not a marathon 😉

💚Are you up for it? Register your interest to receive our discount offer 😎 Link in bio!

#bloodylongwalk #jointhemitomovement #areyouupforit #fitness #challenge #fundraising #mito

Woohoo thanks so much Sunshine Coast...that’s a

Woohoo thanks so much Sunshine Coast...that’s a wrap! Such an amazing day and thanks to all the incredible Bloody Long Walkers who took on the challenge and nailed it!
#bloodylongwalk #35km #walktocuremito #sunshinecoast #australia #mitofoundation #sunset #thankyou

Jazz hands and big smiles, that’s the way we rol

Jazz hands and big smiles, that’s the way we roll at #thebloodylongwalk

#jointhemitomovement #mitofoundation #challenge #areyouupforit #35km

They did it, let the celebrations begin! Finishing

They did it, let the celebrations begin! Finishing today’s Bloody Long Walk Sunshine Coast at stunning Mooloolaba Beach

#jointhemitomovement #mitofoundation #thebloodylongwalk #challenge #areyouupforit #35km

Our fabulous volunteers from the Act for Alana sup

Our fabulous volunteers from the Act for Alana support crew waiting to cheer on today’s Bloody Long Walk finishers at Mooloolaba Beach

#jointhemitomovement #mitofoundation #thebloodylongwalk #areyouupforit #35km #sunshinecoast #fitness #challenge #Mito

The FitStop team with their maracca-playing cat! 😁 We love your enthusiasm guys, see you at the finish line

#jointhemitomovement #mitofoundation #thebloodylongwalk #areyouupforit #35km #fitness #sunshinecoast

Having the best time at The Bloody Long Walk Sunsh

Having the best time at The Bloody Long Walk Sunshine Coast today!

#thebloodylongwalk #sunshinecoast #35km #challenge #fitness #Mito #mitofoundation #jointhemitomovement #areyouupforit

Good luck everyone...have a great day and thanks f

Good luck everyone...have a great day and thanks for taking on the Bloody Long Walk challenge, you got this! 💚🙏☀️

#46200steps #bloodylongwalk #35km #areyouupforit? #walktocuremito #mitofoundation #australia #mitofoundation

💚💚💚 Congratulations to our joint first fi

💚💚💚 Congratulations to our joint first finisher's Wendy Smith and Trish Webster today in the Sunshine Coast, completing the 35km challenge in 3 hrs 32 mins. Well done! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

#bloodylongwalk #areyouupforit? #35km #walktocuremito #sunshinecoast #mitofoundation

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