Over the Queens birthday weekend C, V & K were involved in the biggest race walking carnival in Australia, The LBG carnival held annually in Canberra.
We left early afternoon on Friday, drove to Mildura and spend the night there at the Mid City Plantation Hotel, before waking early on Saturday and driving the rest of the way to Canberra.
Unfortunately our family had come down with a viral infection which left those who caught it with a fever, horrible head ache and a feeling as if they were seasick (I came down with the same virus about 2 weeks ago). Thankfully some Maxolon and Panadol allowed us to continue on to Canberra. We arrived at the Carotel Motel in Canberra in time to meet up for dinner with the SA team, as we had planed to, however most of the kids where too unwell to go anywhere, so we had an early night.
C & V as well as some of their brothers had a pretty rough night, thankfully by the morning they had began to recover and the girls were well enough to race, however poor X was the next victim. The only good thing was whatever it was, it often left as quickly as it came.
K did an under 10 1km race, came 6th overall and 2nd in the handicap, she also did the under 12 2km and came 15th. V did the under 12 2km and came 13th, then the under 14 2km and came 25th. C did the under 12 2km and came 8th, then the under 16 3km and came 25th. The 3 girls made up the under 12 SA1 team and came 4th. V was in the under 14 SA2 team and came 7th.
Between the races and the presentation at the Burns Club in Kambah, we visited parliament house, the dwarfs where very excited to see the house of representative and the senate, especially C as she is meeting with our local MP today as part of a leadership event.
