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Ruby Wright

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My progress

I've raised

$707.84 of my $500 goal

I've logged

50km of my 50km goal

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I am taking part in The Dream Run to help Australian kids in need achieve their dreams and blogging my journey. 

1 in 6 Australian children are living in poverty and don’t have equal access to an education. Together, we need to support these kids so they can dream BIG and create a better future for themselves.

So I am taking on this challenge and raising funds for The Smith Family to help children in need make the most out of their education. 

Please donate if you can and support my challenge to change the lives of Australian children living in poverty.

Thank you.

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3 - The White Horse

Wednesday 24th Jun
"I thought at first it was the white horse persuing me. But I have come to find in the following days the cold bite of brass, a heavy weighted crown on my own head. My haggard lungs try to pull air even as I carry the same arrows that poisoned them. I am high on my foul breathed beast when I realise I have become the sickly rider I ran from. I am Pestilence, I am the first horseman of the apocalypse" - Me, June 16th 2026

You might say that I have failed. I had a plan, you see. 50km was the goal I set but it was never really the goal I had in my heart. I wanted to do 100km, I wanted to walk every day and I wanted to write about it the whole way. It was a personal goal. Not something I thought I wanted to make too public in case anything happened. And yes, things happened...

I mentioned an illness earlier. A yucky tummy, gastro I reckon it was. It had me feeling unwell but not bad enough to stop me and once I had recovered I was doing some good walks consistently. I was well on track to reach 100km by June's end. It was after my Dad's birthday celebration, at which he thanked us in a suspiciously hoarse voice, that my fate was sealed. A plague would pass over the house that evening marking the first of many wakeful nights.

My heaving breath could be heard throughout the thin walled house as I burned through Lemsips, Strepsils and tissues. I wanted to push myself up and out of the door. But my ragged breathing prevented me from much activity. Still I tried to calculate, "if I am better by this date I should be able to catch up by doing X amount of kilometres each day." But the dates I set passed and I didn't get better. 

Eventually I could get up enough to walk. I tried for the long walks, tried to catch up but when I moved oxygen could not reach me fast enough and my body protested each step. I had to start small. It felt futile. Logging 1km walks felt like boasting that I ate all my vegetables. But it was progress. 

So I've done what I could and I've gotten where I am. I'm not going to be able to reach 100km, I wasn't able to walk every day and I didn't write about it the whole time. But really, have I failed? What was the point of me setting those goals? Did I honour the thought behind why I set them? And am I going to continue to honour those thoughts after June? 

The reality is, my actual goal was set at 50km and I am going to meet that goal and my donation goal was set at $500 and I have already met that goal. The goals I had in my heart I can continue to honour after June. This was for The Smith Family and for all the people who donated and I can say that I have really done my best for them. I don't have to push myself beyond my means. Thank you everyone for helping me reach my goals. I'm in the last week now. Let's hope illness #3 doesn't get me
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2 - Dysentery??? Consumption??

Tuesday 2nd Jun
It is as I feared - the sticky hands of my family's illnesses have wrapped themselves around my neck. I have only the white horseman pestilence to beg for mercy as my throat croaks and stomach churns. Is this worse than anything anyone has ever experienced in the world? While doing "The Dream Run" are my own dreams going to be collateral as I loose myself to a yucky tummy? These are questions. 

And now for some statements and such. 

Thank you so much for everyone's help in reaching my donation goal!!! You are all legends and I really appreciate it. 

I managed 2km today and I expect I will be doing 2km for a bit while the illness takes me. Jokes aside, I am not feeling too bad and am still very keen to walk everyday despite it. This is why I have previously invested in vomit bags. We don't want another situation like that bus in Kyoto.... hahaha.... haha.... ha.... 

I have no photos of today but shall give you a photo of my cat, Max who is assisting me with bed rest. 

Remember to be proud of yourself for this year. Don't take what you have done for granted. You have done well. 

1 - Hello There

Monday 1st Jun
Let me start by saying thank you everyone who has donated to the Smith's Family. I have almost reached my goal of $500 already!!! Which is just incredible. I'm so grateful for all of you 🤑

Walk #1 was conquered today! 6km puts me in a good place for reaching 50kms total. I've been planning to walk everyday and if I continue this way I will be at 180km by June's end. Which no one asked for. 

I had aimed to map out a 2km walk and then another 2km extension to that walk. 2km would be the perfect everyday amount and the extra 2km could be added if I miss a day due to consumption or dysentery. 

I had enlisted the help of my dear papa. He is an experienced hiker and an infamous walking companion. I did this for the sole reason that I possess no precise means to measure the distance and he has a smartwatch. Yes, this is how the 4km walk I had intended to do turned into 6kms. This will surprise no one who knows my father well. I consider myself lucky we did not reach double digits. Still, he is a consistent (relentless) companion and keeps the mood light in what turned out to be an extremely wet and muddy walk. 

In the end, despite ending the walk soaked through, I am happy with the routes we mapped down by Merri Creek. I shall try to highlight the landmarks in the following posts but it is a beautiful place. Dad said there was a possibility for a platypus to be in the creek and what is better than a platypus possibility?

Thank you to my Sponsors

$106.12

Tim Janine Fitzpatrick

Happy Walking Ruby

$65.39

Roslyn

With you all the way ...

$60.13

Ann Ramsdale

Have fun on the way Ruby.

$60.13

Annie

Awesome Ruby

$60.13

Mumsy

Go you good thing!

$55

Britt Franzmann

Go you absolute legend!

$55

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Don Wright

Good on you Ruby

$50

Vicki

You go girl!

$40.40

Rob Wright

Good stuff Ruby😊👏

$39.54

Lucinda Costa

$36

You

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$30

Kerry Cowling

Happy to support such a worthy event. Well done Rubes