{"id":895,"date":"2010-07-04T20:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=895"},"modified":"2010-07-04T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:56:57","slug":"4th-july-2010-ride4acure-2010-horse-trek-rides-into-melbourne-on-time-and-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"4th July 2010: ride4acure 2010 horse trek rides into Melbourne on time and target!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Disbelief was the strongest feeling \u00a0in my mind yesterday morning. I found it hard to think of myself being at PeterMac in Melbourne and having got there walking my horses well over 1600 kms from Kempsey NSW.\"Group<\/a>\"Ready<\/a><\/p>\n

Completing the horse trek has seen me live through some of the most challenging physical, mental and emotional times of my life. The drive to thrive with this for me came every single day when I reconnected \u00a0body, mind and spirit with my aim with ride4acure; remembering why I\u2019m doing this, who I\u2019m doing it for and the outcomes being achieved. It was this drive that saw me ride the streets of Melbourne yesterday to \u2018bring it home for Hannah\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"Melbourne<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Joe rode through the city streets with me on his horse Billy. The horses were mostly relaxed on the ride except when Billy heard the beautiful bells from St Andrews Cathedral peeling out, Billy wasn\u2019t too keen on the sound.\u00a0 Esther was taking care of logistics with the ute and float. We\u2019d had parking reserved out front of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre so the horses could be loaded and kept safe after the media finished their job. Channel 9 covered the arrival and created a ripper interview of the arrival and the trek.\u00a0 \"The<\/a>Associate Professor Grant McArthur (Hannah\u2019s doctor and leading melanoma researcher) and Craig Bennet the CEO\u00a0 of Peter Mac plus many friends and family.\"Grant<\/a> Friends travelled from Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Wauchope , Foster and Woolongong to be there to welcome me in, not to mention friends and family from across Victoria.\"Peter<\/a><\/p>\n

I started the journey home yesterday afternoon after a late lunch with family.\u00a0 Joe is travelling with me and Esther will be flying home to Port today.\u00a0 It will take a couple of days to get back to the Macleay arriving Wednesday. \u00a0My nephew Mitch caught a train to Kempsey last Friday and drove my ute and float down to Melbourne for me so I had it handy for my return trip. I\u2019m driving back over the country I rode with my horses which is the same rewarding process I undertook when I\u2019d completed my bike ride last year.\u00a0 This process helps me think about the incredible people I\u2019ve met, the experiences I\u2019ve had and what has been achieved with the thousands of young people and their communities that have invited me to share \u201cMela-What?\u201d and fundraise for the Hannah Rose Melanoma Research Fund.\"We<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disbelief was the strongest feeling \u00a0in my mind yesterday morning. I found it hard to think of myself being at PeterMac in Melbourne and having got there walking my horses well over 1600 kms from Kempsey NSW. Completing the horse trek has seen me live through some of the most challenging physical, mental and emotional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}