City Girls training walk to Cathedral Cove We love training on the Coromandel Peninsula! Haydn with the money he raised for the City Girls Haydn working for the money he gave!
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City Girls
October 7 2008
Welcome to the City Girls Team page! Over the next six months we will keep you up to date with our training and fundraising as we count down to April 4 and 5 2009.
Lesley, Margaret, Jan & Kerry are the 'City Girls' and 2009 will be our fourth Oxfam Trailwalker together! Yes we have participated three times before and no we are not mad- well maybe a bit! What started as a one off challenge in 2006 has somehow become an annual event. In 2008 we crossed the line in 24 hours and 59 minutes and were extremely proud to win the 'Fastest Veteran Women's Team' award.
In the last 3 years we have raised over $12,000 for Oxfam- thanks to our fantastic supporters and sponsors. This year we again hope to post a very respectable total, further supporting the amazing work Oxfam does.
We have all enjoyed a bit of a 'training break' over the winter and are now thinking seriously about all the hard work that lies ahead of us. Our motto is 'Pain is Temporary, Pride is Forever" and we are already looking forward to taking part in the 2009 Oxfam Trailwalker!
January 23 2009
It has been back to reality for us all over the last few weeks, working and trying to train as well! We all worked hard on our training over the holidays, getting together and building up the momentum! We had a great day out between Christmas and New Year where we enjoyed a lovely walk to Cathedral Cove with Margaret's family. We have a number of fun training weekends and fundraising events planned over the next 2 months in the build up to the big event! Watch this space!
February 20 2009
It is now only 42 days until the event and our training is really building up! We spent Waitangi Weekend at Cooks Beach training together. It was great getting out on the trail as a team and it gave us lots of time to discuss our strategies for this years 100km walk. We always have lots of fun when we are together and a 6 1/2 hour walk just speeds by! Really!! We also enjoyed a happy hour where we mapped out the rest of our training! Back home and all back at work fulltime, training is squeezed in whenever we can! With Lesley and Margaret in Auckland and Jan and Kerry in Putaruru we are lucky to always have a partner to train with in between team training weekends! We have our regular walks, Lesley and Margaret enjoy One Tree Hill and the Waitakares and Jan and Kerry frequent the Te Waihou and Arapuni walkways.
We are delighted that we will have the same support crew as last year-all those smelly socks can't have put them off! They are making plans already too. We are so grateful to these four wonderful people: Trish, Lynne, Lee and Lyle!
This week we are really excited to see the article about Lesley and the City Girls in the "GOOD" magazine. Check it out!
March 8 2009
There are now only 3 weekends until the big event! It has been a busy weekend for the City Girls in Auckland and in Putaruru. We have all spent between 9 and 10 hours walking this weekend and are feeling great- well maybe a bit tired! We are being asked if we are obsessed with walking but we just know that we have to do the training so we can do the 100km! We are looking forward to getting together at the Rotorua Walking Festival in 2 weeks- it will be our last big training session! Our fundraising is starting to build up too with some donations to put on and more promised!
March 22 2009
It has been a HUGE weekend for the City Girls. We participated in the Rotorua Walking Festival, walking 42km on Saturday and 30 km on Sunday. This is a fantastic, very well run event which attracts walkers from all over the globe! Check it out at www.rotoruawalkingfestival.org.nz. We really enjoyed the very scenic walks-Redwoods and Whakarewarewa forest on Saturday and Rotorua city on Sunday, also chatting with many people along the way! We even met a Belgian Trailwalker!!! A special hi to Mike from Rotorua who we enjoyed talking with on Sunday! We hope you found your way to our page Mike! A big thanks also to Bronwyn and family who allowed us to stay at their AMAZING house at Lake Tarawera- WOW the views are awesome! This means our training is almost at an end-at least the real hard stuff is. There are now only 2 weeks to go and even though this is our fourth time we are still getting nervous!!
April 2 2009
Only 2 more sleeps to go and we are in organisation mode!! We are all packing, baking, and shopping for essential supplies-oh and working! We are delighted that our fundraising total has really increased lately and we thank all our wonderful supporters!
A very special thanks in advance to five FANTASTIC people: THE CITY GIRLS SUPPORT CREW:
TRISH, LYNNE, KAREN, LEE and LYLE. You are the BEST! We could not contemplate doing this without you guys-YOU ROCK!!!! Welcome Karen- we hope you enjoy yourself!
Thank you for giving up your weekend for us. We really appreciate you!
April 6 2009
WOW!!! What a FANTASTIC weekend! The City Girls are pleased to report that we all completed the 100km walk in an official time of 23 hours and 4 minutes! We are very excited about our new City Girls record! We are eternally grateful to our AMAZING support crew: Trish, Lynne, Karen and Lyle. You can see them performing just one of their chants on the Trailwalker website! They had a new chant for us at each checkpoint! We could never have done the walk without these guys.
Thank you support crew for: driving the camper van and support car, motivating us at every checkpoint, dressing up and doing chants for us, serving us yummy food, filling our bottles, taping up our smelly feet, helping us find things, giving us a candlelit dinner at checkpoint 4, dressing up for dinner-sorry we didn't, decorating our campervan, massaging us-especailly when we were very dirty!, reminding us to take things, giving us wet wipes, putting the seats out, putting the seats away, doing dishes, cleaning out the van when we got back, being resourceful, writing an amazing James Bond, Charlie's Angels, Trailwalker Mills and Boons serial story for us to read on each leg, recording messages from our friends to play at checkpoint 4 for motivation...........and there's proably much more that I've forgotten. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
We would also like to thank:
- Mark and Ivan at Merino Socks NZ Ltd for the merino socks. We love them and highly recommend them!
- Margaret and Lyle at Imageland-for all the embroidery.
- Wayne and Jan at Putaruru Electrical for sponsoring the Camper Van-again!
- Art 'n Signs-Dean and Karen who painted our fantastic City Girls banner!
- Putaruru Primary School, staff and pupils who were so outstanding in their support- some even getting up at 5.30 to make it to the start!
A special hi to all the teams we met along the way! Thanks to our supporters for all the texts, they were fantastic and kept us going-do some of you not sleep????
Looks like we have stopped saying 'Never Again!!'.......
Fundraising Summary For This
Team
We have achieved 128% of our target.
| Target: |
$2500
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Fundraising:
| Online Total: |
$2,780 |
| Offline Total: |
$115 |
| Pledged: |
$0 |
| Credits: |
$311 |
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| Total: |
$3,206
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| # Regular Givers Recruited: |
1
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| Please Note: Regular Giver credits will only be included in the fundraising total once these recruitments have been confirmed by Oxfam New Zealand. |
| % Raised: |
128% |
| Fundraising Deadline: |
15/06/2009 |
Team
Fundraising:
| Recruit a Regular Giver
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$250.00
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| Graeme Dunnet
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$50.00
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Congratulations for yet again finishing the walk. Fantastic to hear you did it in a record time as well! |
| Alan Young
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$200.00
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| CR Kelly
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$40.00
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| Lyle & Margaret Kennedy
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$250.00
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We are pleased to support a worthy cause. |
| Dinner Girls
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$50.00
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Many thanks to Margaret's 'dinner girl' friends. Your support is appreciated. |
| Mike & Marianne Knowles-Townsend
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$50.00
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Thank you to Margaret's dear friends, Mike & Miri. Your support is appreciated. |
| Janet Weeks
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$25.00
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Thank you to Margaret's good friend, Janet. Your support is appreciated |
| Nancy Kloster
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$50.00
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Margaret -
We are so impressed with your efforts (and your stamina)!
Great job and congratulations to you and your team-
With love and admiration -
Nancy and John
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| Levzan Veseli
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$75.00
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| Guy Verhelst
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$100.00
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A gift from Belgium with sympathy |
| glenys laloli
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$400.00
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thanks to Glenys for hosting out fundraising lunch alst sunday. Thanks to everyone who came,murray,Jan Dick,Celia,Frank Raewyn,Jill,Tracey,AIMEE,kATY,rEX,alma,Lyndle,Lyle,AND MANY MORE/ tHANK YOU FROM oXFAM |
| The Team at DUS
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$100.00
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Good luck to the girls - hope its not too cold... |
| Tracey Sunderland
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$200.00
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GO FOR IT GIRLS! (OR SHOULD I SAY GRANNIES :-))HAVE FUN, BE SAFE AND WALK HARD! DON'T EAT TOO MANY CREAM DONUTS! WE WILL BE CHEERING FOR YOU FROM THE SLUMS OF MUMBAI!
LOVE AND BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL TRACEY, BRAD, JOSH & AIMEE (YOUR NO.1 SUPPORTERS!) |
| Tresor, Haydn, Maveu, Anita, Lauren, Katie, Elleana, Pania, Lily, Chey, Jessie, Calimae, Caleb V4
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$14.00
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Dear Mrs Farrant,
V4 has donated $1.00 for your Oxfam walk. GO! City Girls! Thank you V4 you are wonderful!xxox |
| Jan Duthie
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$20.00
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Thanks Jan- another staff member at Putaruru Primary, who works in C1!! Lucky C1!! |
| Anonymous
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$50.00
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| Robin and Mary Dunnet
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$50.00
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Thanks to Kerry's mum and dad. The fourth year they have supported the City Girls and Oxfam! xxox |
| Michiel, Sylvia, Sophie and Felix Klijn
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$6.70
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Thanks to the Klijn family who gave me their jar of 10c pieces before they left for Holland! Very much appreciated. |
| Catherine Milne family
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$20.00
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good luck to all of you. |
| Anita, Blair, Haydn and Grace Muter
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$30.00
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Have fun and keep safe.
Thank you so much to the Muter Family-wonderful supporters of the City Girls! |
| Carol Edmeades
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$40.00
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All the best for your Oxfam weekend. Thanks Carol-this is the 4th year Carol has supported us! |
| john martin
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$100.00
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Good luck City Girls - watch out for all the bugs and bush creatures |
| Felix Klijn
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$2.00
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Thanks to Felix. We will miss you at Putaruru Primary.
Haere Ra |
| Sophie Klijn
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$2.00
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Thank you to Sophie-we will miss you at Putaruru Primary School. |
| Anonymous
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$50.00
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| Pam Hay
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$20.00
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Go the City Girls! thanks Pam for supporting us again this year! |
| Haydn Muter
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$20.00
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Dear Mrs Farrant,
I think you are a great teacher. I would like you to teach me when I get into the seniors next year beacause you are very nice. Because I like you, I wanted to earn some money for you and your charity. Mum read the class the school newspaper and it told us about your 100km walk for Oxfam. We then had a look on your website the "City Girls". It was a cool website. I have worked really hard and have saved $20.00. These are the things that I did to earn money for you and Oxfam. One weekend this term some people trashed the juniors playground by getting into the big rubbish bin. The area looked dreadful. I helped to clean it up. It was a little bit hard because everything was sticky with disgusting water. I earned $5. In the weekend I cleaned the floor of V4 with the rug doctor. It took at least 2 hours. I earned $5.00. Yesterday I picked up cabbage tree leaves by myself. Grace said that she was going to help but all she did was be annoying. I had to do the lot and the sun was beaming down on me and it was hard work. It took me an hour and a half. I earned $5.00. All this term I have been doing my omework without complaining. For each night I do my homework without complainging I get $1.00. I was allowed to give you $5.00 of my homework money. That makes $20.00 altogether. I hope that this money helps you with your walk and I wish you good luck. Give it your best as well. Have a fun time and get to the finish.
from Haydn.
WOW!!!!! thanks so much to Haydn and your wonderful parents! Haydn is seven!!!! |
| Dallas and Ian McPherson
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$10.00
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Thanks to Dallas and Ian of Putaruru, loyal City Girls supporters. |
| Prue Lake
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$20.00
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Thanks to Prue a loyal supporter. Prue recently participated in the Relay for Life in Hamilton. |
| Rose Olson
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$50.00
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Good luck girls,
don't break any legs.!
Cheers from Melbourne
Rose |
| Richard ADAMS
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$300.00
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From Richard Adams and Mike Sexton. Thank you from Oxfam and the City Girls for supporting us. |
| Lesley REECE
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$200.00
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Hi Girls
$200.00 from lesley and fred and Laurie |
| Jill Simpson
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$200.00
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Not sure whether I think you are all nuts or not but even so I admire your dedication, determination and stickability. |
| Mark Scantlebury
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$100.00
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Hi City Girls,
Go for Gold and good luck from Clint, Sheryl and everyone at J.A. Russell Ltd. |
| Oxfam Unwrapped
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$61.00
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Team details
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Leader: Lesley Reece
Member B: Kerry Farrant
Member C: Jan Bullot
Member D: Margaret Kennedy
Target Time:
Steady- 24-30 hours
Recruit a regular giver:
$250 fundraising credit for each verified regular giver your team recruits.
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