Dear all,
I have an exciting news. Apart from a great grandad on a push scooter there will be a rider on a UNICYCLE during the Lap Around Tassie!
Please read about it in the attached information. This time it will be “Three Amigos” on the road. We hope for a great support from everyone as always. If you can, please pass this information onto others. The young Australians living with cancer deserve a lot of support and will be very gratefull for it. As always, every cent donated goes to CanTeen. We are paying all expenses from own pockets. So please, be generous too!
Thank you.
“Three Amigos”, George, Vaclav and Vlastik
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/06/2706297.htm
A 70-year-old Tasmanian ultra-marathon athlete has finished his 3200 kilometre push-scooter ride from Darwin to Adelaide.
Vlastik Skvaril from Burnie took on the epic journey to raise money for the children’s cancer charities CanTeen and Camp Quality.
It has taken Mr Skvaril more than a month to scoot down the Stuart Highway.
He says the experience was very different to last year, when he jogged from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay in New South Wales.
“It’s different because we covered a bit longer distances, so it was easier for overnight camping because most of the time we were able to get to some rest area or caravan park.”
“‘We averaged 80 kilometres, but I had a day when I did 140 kilometres in one day.
“It was thanks to the wind, not thanks to my fitness,” he said.
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Dear all,
I am off soon for another fundraiser for CanTeen. Less than 12 months after the last one across Australia, I can do it again thanks to major sponsor Forestry Tasmania and other support sponsors Cadbury, National Foods (Lactos), Spirit of Tasmania, Asics and BCF from whom I am still using goods donated for the previous run.
Why not running this time? No, I am not lazy, I still love running, but this is much shorter distance than my previous run of almost 6,000 km. This one is only 3,200 km and I guess, that if I ran it, it would not be a big deal and would not attract much attention, which is much needed for our fundraising. 70 year old great grandad on a push scooter will be hopefully more interesting.
I am starting promotion of this ride on Thursday, 23rd July at Centro Burnie (K-Mart) and again on the 27th July. You will find more information on the attached flyer or please contact me, detail are on the flyer, if you would like to learn more or if you would like to help somehow, which would be much appreciated. It is all about young Australians and the organisation assisting them – CanTeen.
We will leave from Devonport on the 7th of August. I will be posting reports on my http://vlastislav.skvaril.googlepages.com as often as possible. Much of the trip will be in the Outback so the communication will be limited. We have Next G mobile which should work reasonably often and I intend to purchase prepaid satellite internet.
As you can see from the flyer the ride will start from Darwin on my 70th birthday – 28th of August.
I hope to get as much support from you as I always had in the past. All the young Australians supported by CanTeen will be very grateful.
Thank you all!
Vlastik Skvaril
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Dear friends and supporters,
Attached is a flyer outlining our next fundraiser for CanTeen. We would appreciate very much any sort of assistance and/or donation, help with the promotion, publicity or even for any of you to organise some fundraising function during, before or when the fundraiser is completed.. Details are in the flyer and we will be happy to provide more details soon. We also will be promoting this fundraiser during a Six Hour Track Race in Launceston on the 22nd of February with the kind approval by the organisers. http://www.launcestonathleticclub.com/6hourrace/
(To explain, our grand daughter Samara is expecting a baby on the 8th of February so in less than a week I will be a great granddad!)
We hope that this ride will be successful and we will be able to start planning for a much bigger event later this year. I will keep you informed.
Thank you for your continuous support and encouragement.
Jo and Vlastik Skvaril
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As I mentioned in the last report there were many impressions from the running onto the school field at the Byron Bay primary School. It was lined up with 600 cheering students cheering me all the way to the finishing line. It was very emotional but I did not have too much time to absorb the atmosphere. There were speeches, questions from journalists, TV and presentations from the students and Lyons Club. After the official ceremony was over it was to a sausage sizzle and to try to answer all the questions from the enthusiastic students. They wanted my signature on their bandanas and on my flyers; I did not know what to do first. I had a taste of what it is like to be the centre of attention for that moment, though I do not think that I should have been. I feel very humble. I always prefer to switch the attention to the cause – helping young people living with cancer – CanTeen rather than having the spotlight on me. But I enjoyed being surrounded by the students and being asked so many questions. Obviously they were very interested in what we have done, how and why. One of the more talkative young students made comments which really took me by surprise. She questioned if I was really 69. She said that her uncle is 55 and looks older than me! What can I say! As a kid I remember that anyone over 30 looked very old to us. Well, I can take this sort of compliment any time.
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Pease help support Vlastik Skvaril on his journey across Australia to raise $50,000 for young people living with cancer – CanTeen.
20 July – 27 October 2008.
Sponsor Vlastik online at: http://everydayhero.com.au/Vlastiislav_Skvaril
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