WEBVTT - Talking Vision 723 Week Beginning 8th of April 2024 0:00:38.390 --> 0:00:44.140 From Vision Australia. This is talking vision. And now here's 0:00:44.140 --> 0:00:46.150 your host, Sam Colley. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.760 Hello, everyone. It's great to be here with you. And 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.760 for the next half hour, we talk matters of blindness 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.460 and low vision. A lot of blind and vision impaired 0:00:57.460 --> 0:01:00.490 people don't have a lot of confidence. So if somebody 0:01:00.490 --> 0:01:03.070 says no, you can't do that, they go, oh, okay, 0:01:03.070 --> 0:01:05.200 I can't do it now. I'll walk off and find 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.350 something else to do. So if anyone listening out there 0:01:08.350 --> 0:01:11.440 wants to get fitter or whatever, be confident, say, hey, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.500 I want to go and into this gym, I want 0:01:14.500 --> 0:01:18.250 to go hiking, I want to experience this and you 0:01:18.250 --> 0:01:21.370 should find a way of doing it. Welcome to the program. 0:01:21.370 --> 0:01:24.580 This week we're heading over to South Australia to have 0:01:24.580 --> 0:01:28.510 a chat with a couple of show hosts from Vision 0:01:28.510 --> 0:01:33.070 Australia Radio in Adelaide. It's Sam Richard and Lizzie Eastham 0:01:33.070 --> 0:01:36.790 from Studio One who are taking part in the 100 0:01:36.790 --> 0:01:40.450 K Your Way challenge, and there's still time to join them. 0:01:40.450 --> 0:01:44.620 If you're interested in walking, running, swing riding or moving 0:01:44.620 --> 0:01:48.160 100 K your way over the month of April to 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.510 raise vital funds for Vision Australia Radio and the services 0:01:52.510 --> 0:01:57.190 they provide to the blind, low vision and print disabled communities. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.030 That interview is coming up very shortly, so make sure 0:02:01.030 --> 0:02:05.020 to stick around and after you hear from Lizzie and Sam, 0:02:05.170 --> 0:02:09.400 Frances Caitlin is back on the program for a reader recommended, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.550 and we finish up once again with a little bit 0:02:12.550 --> 0:02:16.720 of news and information. I hope you enjoy this week's 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:24.600 episode of Talking Vision. In the past couple of weeks, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.200 we've spoken to a couple of people from Melbourne and 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.460 Perth taking part in the 100 K Your Way challenge 0:02:32.460 --> 0:02:35.880 to feel good, get moving and raise funds to support 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.570 people who live with blindness or low vision. In case 0:02:39.570 --> 0:02:42.990 you haven't heard of the challenge, by now, people across 0:02:42.990 --> 0:02:48.960 Australia are walking, riding, swimming, running or moving 100 K 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.770 their way across the month of April. And two such 0:02:52.770 --> 0:02:57.630 people from Adelaide this week are Sam Rickard and Lizzie Eastham, 0:02:57.630 --> 0:03:02.670 the co-hosts of Studio One on Virgin Australia radio in Adelaide. 0:03:02.670 --> 0:03:06.990 And it's my great pleasure to welcome them. Now, Sam, Lizzie, 0:03:06.990 --> 0:03:10.170 welcome to Talking Vision. Thanks so much for coming back 0:03:10.170 --> 0:03:10.980 and having a chat. 0:03:11.370 --> 0:03:13.650 Well, we're glad to be back. Mr. Sam C. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:14.670 Thanks for having us. 0:03:14.670 --> 0:03:18.480 Now, as people are well aware, you're both the hosts 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.810 of Studio One. So tell us a little bit about 0:03:21.810 --> 0:03:24.960 the show before we jump into the 100 K chat. 0:03:25.290 --> 0:03:28.770 So Studio One is a show that looks at life 0:03:28.770 --> 0:03:31.440 from a blind and low vision point of view. Yeah, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.250 we cover topics that are experienced by blind, vision impaired 0:03:35.250 --> 0:03:37.890 people on a daily basis, such as, you know, public 0:03:37.890 --> 0:03:42.120 transport and technology and all sorts of other stuff. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.630 The general idea is that we're going out to a 0:03:45.630 --> 0:03:50.070 wider audience plus, so it provides some degree of education 0:03:50.070 --> 0:03:52.680 to people who may not know everything there is to 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.950 know about being vision impaired or blind, but also if 0:03:55.950 --> 0:03:58.320 you are vision impaired and blind or blind and listening, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.220 it will give you this sort of ah, yes, I 0:04:02.220 --> 0:04:05.130 understand that. So this is this wry smile as you 0:04:05.130 --> 0:04:07.230 hear some of the stuff we're talking about. So we 0:04:07.230 --> 0:04:09.120 aim to entertain and inform. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.990 And some of course, this month is an opportunity to 0:04:12.990 --> 0:04:17.880 entertain and inform people out there across Australia in another way, 0:04:17.910 --> 0:04:21.120 through the hundred K Your Way challenge, where they can 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.500 follow all the participants, including yourself and Lizzie, on social 0:04:25.500 --> 0:04:30.480 media and various other channels as you walk, run, swim, ride, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.660 do whatever you want to do to get up to 0:04:33.660 --> 0:04:39.360 those 100km. But also there is a vital purpose to this, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:44.010 of course, to raise important funds for Vision Australia and 0:04:44.010 --> 0:04:48.540 get people thinking about the challenges that people who are 0:04:48.540 --> 0:04:51.930 blind or have low vision face when they want to 0:04:51.930 --> 0:04:55.350 get fit and healthy. So you know, what sort of 0:04:55.350 --> 0:04:58.740 motivated you to get involved, Sam? What really sort of 0:04:58.740 --> 0:04:59.940 kicked that off for you? 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.590 I've got an email from our volunteer coordinator, Guillaume, who said, oh, 0:05:04.590 --> 0:05:06.960 am I? We're raising a team. Would you like to 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.410 be on it? So I said, all right, we'll give 0:05:10.410 --> 0:05:13.560 this a go. And because I can be sort of 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.380 physical if I need to be, I used to do 0:05:16.380 --> 0:05:20.820 a little bit of running when I was younger, so, uh, yeah, 0:05:20.820 --> 0:05:22.710 I sort of thought, oh, I'll give that a go. 0:05:22.710 --> 0:05:25.680 And that's why I've been sort of hobbling around like 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.350 an old man building up about seven K's per day 0:05:28.350 --> 0:05:29.280 or thereabouts. 0:05:29.550 --> 0:05:31.620 Like I say, a little bit of running. Yeah. 0:05:32.460 --> 0:05:36.360 Just, you know, casually. An Olympic bronze medallist. No big deal. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:37.260 Yeah. That's it. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.620 But also. But, uh, as things will start going along 0:05:40.620 --> 0:05:43.530 and it's like, well, my work wife over here who 0:05:43.530 --> 0:05:45.480 does a lot more exercise than I do and probably 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.240 is better connected than I am, and I got her 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:49.080 involved as well. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.010 And Lizzy, has that been going for you, apart from 0:05:53.010 --> 0:05:56.700 the encouragement from Sam and, you know, getting involved that way, 0:05:56.700 --> 0:05:59.130 what was your motivation in particular? 0:05:59.370 --> 0:06:03.720 Well, I'm very passionate about people with blindness or low vision, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.580 gaining fitness and mobility and keeping that fitness. Unfortunately, a 0:06:08.580 --> 0:06:11.670 lot of people with blindness or vision impairment are conditioned 0:06:11.670 --> 0:06:14.760 to believe that there is this barrier that stops them 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.110 from being able to be mobile or fit. And for me, 0:06:19.110 --> 0:06:21.750 as someone who's had struggles with their health and someone 0:06:21.750 --> 0:06:24.690 who is now, I think I would consider myself to 0:06:24.690 --> 0:06:27.900 be fairly, you know, I'm fit enough, you know? So 0:06:27.900 --> 0:06:30.240 I just thought this challenge would be a good way 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.220 to show others that you can be fit. You can 0:06:32.220 --> 0:06:36.870 be mobile despite your disability. And, uh, I have actually 0:06:36.870 --> 0:06:39.630 already done my 100 K. In fact, I did it 0:06:39.630 --> 0:06:42.720 within four days, so I had to. Yeah, I had 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.410 to reset my goal to 250 K, and it looks 0:06:46.410 --> 0:06:48.030 like I'm probably going to get that by the end 0:06:48.030 --> 0:06:49.350 of this week. So I'm going to have to keep 0:06:49.350 --> 0:06:50.640 pushing the goal up. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:56.490 That's incredible. Wow. That's unbelievable. You've already smashed that 100 K. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.270 That's amazing. And it sounds like you've overcome any sort 0:07:00.270 --> 0:07:03.540 of barriers or challenges that might have kept you from 0:07:03.540 --> 0:07:06.420 perhaps in the past, getting as fit as you like. 0:07:06.420 --> 0:07:11.520 Have either of you experienced any sort of accessibility challenges 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.910 or barriers or obstacles to getting as fit as you'd 0:07:14.910 --> 0:07:19.230 like in terms of, you know, walking, running, biking? How's 0:07:19.230 --> 0:07:22.710 that been for you both with your lived experience? Of 0:07:22.710 --> 0:07:26.130 blindness or low vision. What sort of that experience being like? Sam, 0:07:26.130 --> 0:07:27.060 I'll start with you. 0:07:27.420 --> 0:07:31.350 So I found it interesting that the higher you go 0:07:31.350 --> 0:07:34.380 up as far as qualification, as far as an athlete goes, 0:07:34.380 --> 0:07:37.140 for example, the easier it does become for you because 0:07:37.140 --> 0:07:39.420 you have a lot of stuff thrown at you. It's 0:07:39.420 --> 0:07:43.350 the casual fitness person or the person just getting started 0:07:43.350 --> 0:07:45.990 out that has problems getting access to gyms and things 0:07:45.990 --> 0:07:48.780 like that. When I got to a certain stage as 0:07:48.780 --> 0:07:51.900 an athlete, I could actually pick and choose training groups 0:07:51.900 --> 0:07:54.900 to be involved with and get discounts at gymnasiums and 0:07:54.900 --> 0:07:56.880 stuff like that. So for me that no, there hasn't 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.010 been a lot of problems, but that because there was 0:07:59.010 --> 0:08:00.840 a particular life that I was leading at the time, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.930 if I decide to get back into it now, who knows? 0:08:03.930 --> 0:08:06.030 But as I said, I'm an old man. I don't 0:08:06.030 --> 0:08:07.230 want to do things like that anymore. 0:08:08.340 --> 0:08:11.190 Oh, well, let's see. What about you? Yeah. 0:08:11.190 --> 0:08:16.680 So I actually experienced quite a number of challenges. I 0:08:17.190 --> 0:08:20.730 was about four years ago. I was pretty overweight, about 0:08:20.730 --> 0:08:24.360 20 kilos heavier than I am now, and I wanted 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.320 to get into hiking and nobody wanted to hike with me. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.390 You know, I was volunteering and working with a lot 0:08:30.390 --> 0:08:35.490 of blindness organisations here in Adelaide, and there weren't too 0:08:35.490 --> 0:08:37.980 many people that were willing to take the risk to 0:08:37.980 --> 0:08:42.450 take a blind person hiking. Fortunately, I was able to 0:08:42.450 --> 0:08:45.780 meet up with another volunteer at Beyond Blindness. He was 0:08:45.930 --> 0:08:49.050 my hiking partner at the time, and he agreed to 0:08:49.050 --> 0:08:52.050 take me three times a week on these massive hikes, 0:08:52.050 --> 0:08:56.040 20 to 25 days, and I used to be completely wrecked. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.160 But before then, yeah, actually going to a gym and 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:03.630 engaging with the class and training was quite difficult for 0:09:03.630 --> 0:09:06.810 me to find people that were reliable or that were 0:09:06.810 --> 0:09:08.820 willing to take the risk to, to take me to 0:09:08.820 --> 0:09:12.480 do those sort of activities. Now, of course, I'm in 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.360 para cycling. I compete. So, you know, I have a 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.300 regular pilot both on the road and track. I have 0:09:18.300 --> 0:09:22.170 a seeing eye dog who is fantastic, and I have 0:09:22.170 --> 0:09:24.360 lots of people that are willing to walk or hike 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.170 with me if need be. So yeah, whilst it's I've 0:09:28.170 --> 0:09:31.680 been able to overcome those challenges, I think I'm one 0:09:31.680 --> 0:09:33.480 of the lucky ones. There are a lot of people 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.750 that meet a lot of barriers and then, you know, 0:09:36.750 --> 0:09:40.320 because of that, it's more it's easier to just give up. 0:09:40.650 --> 0:09:43.380 I think one of the things that, uh, something that 0:09:43.560 --> 0:09:45.810 me and Lucy have in common is our confidence. We 0:09:45.810 --> 0:09:48.960 are extremely confident people. So if there's a door thrown 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.720 our way, we'll push the thing open again. And a 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.630 lot of blind and vision impaired people don't have a 0:09:54.630 --> 0:09:57.510 lot of confidence. So if somebody says no, you can't 0:09:57.510 --> 0:09:59.970 do that, they go, oh, okay, I can't do it now. 0:09:59.970 --> 0:10:02.910 I'll walk off and find something else to do. So 0:10:02.910 --> 0:10:06.150 if anyone listening out there wants to get fitter or whatever, 0:10:06.630 --> 0:10:10.530 be confident, say, hey, I want to go and into 0:10:10.530 --> 0:10:13.770 this gym, I want to go hiking, I want to 0:10:14.130 --> 0:10:17.250 experience this and you should find a way of doing it. 0:10:17.250 --> 0:10:19.800 Now this with this wonderful NDIS, then you should be 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.720 able to find at least a worker that will help 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:22.500 you out anyway. 0:10:22.500 --> 0:10:24.990 And that's the thing I just wanted to add to. 0:10:24.990 --> 0:10:30.150 The benefits of physical fitness and mobility far outweigh the 0:10:30.150 --> 0:10:33.570 the few rejections you might get. Or you know, the 0:10:33.570 --> 0:10:38.040 the discomfort that you might experience trying to engage with that, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.650 or even just trying to get fit. At first, the 0:10:40.650 --> 0:10:43.320 benefits far outweigh any of the cons. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.050 And, you know, with, um, with the hiking, there's that 0:10:46.050 --> 0:10:49.980 added element of, you know, having the uneven ground and 0:10:49.980 --> 0:10:53.550 different surfaces and different terrains. Lizzie, how did you go 0:10:53.550 --> 0:10:56.520 with that? And, you know, navigating that sort of thing 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.060 when you're hiking and if you're comfortable sharing the nature 0:11:00.060 --> 0:11:04.290 of your vision condition and how that impacted on your hiking, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.020 tell us a little bit about that, if that's okay 0:11:07.020 --> 0:11:08.640 with you. Yeah, yeah. 0:11:09.150 --> 0:11:12.960 So I have September optic dysplasia, which basically means that 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.360 the optic nerve that connects to my eyes to my 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.760 brain is not fully developed. It's sort of like a 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.280 frayed television. Cable is how I like to explain it. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.190 So that means that for all intents and purposes, I'm 0:11:23.190 --> 0:11:27.420 totally blind. Luckily for me, the hiking partner that I 0:11:27.420 --> 0:11:30.960 had for a number of years was, um, Polish and 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.820 an X mountain tour guide slash mountain rescue. Uh, so 0:11:35.820 --> 0:11:38.700 he was quite inventive and out of the box when 0:11:38.700 --> 0:11:41.190 it came to his thinking. So he actually rigged up 0:11:41.190 --> 0:11:45.060 a system whereby I was connected to him via a 0:11:45.060 --> 0:11:48.840 length of climbing rope and a tent tube, and I 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.570 was connected to his backpack. So I was directly behind him, 0:11:51.570 --> 0:11:55.320 and he could direct me just by steering himself. And 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.830 I also had Nordic poles to hike with. So I 0:11:58.830 --> 0:12:00.990 had my balance, and he was pretty good at warning 0:12:00.990 --> 0:12:05.580 me of obstacles. So that's sort of how I did that. Unfortunately, 0:12:05.580 --> 0:12:08.610 he passed away a couple of years ago, so I 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.580 obviously I don't hike with him anymore, but I still 0:12:11.580 --> 0:12:15.150 enjoy hiking. So now I go with Lacey, my seeing 0:12:15.150 --> 0:12:18.030 eye dog, and I have a support worker, and we 0:12:18.030 --> 0:12:21.030 tend to pick the trails that are a bit more safer, 0:12:21.030 --> 0:12:24.750 things like Anstey Hill. Where there's lots of fire roads 0:12:24.750 --> 0:12:28.650 and just gravel tracks and not so many rocky surfaces 0:12:28.650 --> 0:12:29.520 to trip up on. 0:12:29.850 --> 0:12:32.310 I think that's a good trick, really, is that, yes, 0:12:32.310 --> 0:12:33.840 we've got a good excuse. If we want to do 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.390 things a bit easier, then start with the easier things. 0:12:36.390 --> 0:12:38.550 So start with the easier trails. That's what I yeah. 0:12:38.550 --> 0:12:41.910 When I go skiing I go I stayed on the 0:12:41.910 --> 0:12:45.240 the learning slope there because I wasn't confident to do 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.080 anything further. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.830 Unfortunately I didn't get that luxury. Sam, this guy, Mark 0:12:49.950 --> 0:12:52.350 was my hiking partner. It was a bit of a 0:12:52.860 --> 0:12:55.170 he liked to really push my boundaries and limits. And 0:12:55.170 --> 0:12:57.660 I remember the first hike we went on. We were 0:12:57.660 --> 0:13:03.240 climbing down rocks like big boulders and climbing up these 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.500 really steep banks and crossing streams and all sorts. So wow, 0:13:07.560 --> 0:13:09.750 I never got to start out easy, but as a result, 0:13:09.750 --> 0:13:12.150 I can now enjoy the easier trails. Yes. 0:13:12.150 --> 0:13:12.480 Do that. 0:13:12.780 --> 0:13:13.470 Do anything. 0:13:13.470 --> 0:13:14.850 Yeah, that's certainly that's it. 0:13:14.850 --> 0:13:17.850 Yeah. That was probably the approach he was taking. And 0:13:17.850 --> 0:13:20.490 you know, it's wonderful to have those sort of people 0:13:20.490 --> 0:13:24.360 that really boost your confidence and your self-belief and give 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.240 you the opportunity to surprise yourself and be like, oh 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:36.010 my God, I can't believe I just did that. I'm 0:13:36.010 --> 0:13:39.250 Sam Culley and you're listening to Talking Vision on Vision 0:13:39.250 --> 0:13:44.380 Australia Radio, Associated Stations of Reading Radio and the Community 0:13:44.380 --> 0:13:48.190 Radio Network. I hope you enjoyed the first half of 0:13:48.190 --> 0:13:52.600 my conversation with Sam, Richard and Lizzie Eastham. They're chatting 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.050 to me all about 100 K your way and their 0:13:56.050 --> 0:13:59.710 challenge and how it's gone so far. If you're interested 0:13:59.710 --> 0:14:03.250 in hearing from Sam and Lizzie again, or you've missed 0:14:03.250 --> 0:14:07.690 any part of our conversation today, Talking vision is, of course, 0:14:07.690 --> 0:14:14.260 available on the Vision Australia Radio website, RVA radio.org. That's 0:14:14.260 --> 0:14:18.430 RVA radio.org, where you can find all past episodes of 0:14:18.430 --> 0:14:22.870 Talking Vision, including this one. But if podcasts are more 0:14:22.870 --> 0:14:27.160 your thing or you're a Vision Australia Library member, Talking 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.850 Vision is also available on the podcast app of your 0:14:30.850 --> 0:14:35.830 choice or through the Vision Australia library. And now back 0:14:35.830 --> 0:14:39.610 to the second half of my conversation with Sam and Lizzie. 0:14:39.820 --> 0:14:43.930 I'm back now with Sam, Richard and Lizzie Eastham, co-hosts 0:14:43.930 --> 0:14:47.890 of Studio One on Vision Australia Radio in Adelaide, having 0:14:47.890 --> 0:14:50.950 a chat with me today about their hundred K Your 0:14:50.950 --> 0:14:54.670 Way challenge and how they're progressing so far. Now let's 0:14:54.670 --> 0:14:57.640 have a little bit of a chat about your favorite 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.810 spots so far, where you've gone and exercised and got 0:15:01.810 --> 0:15:04.720 in your way towards 100 K, or in your case, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.310 Lizzie smashed it already in the first week. That's unbelievable. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.370 But Sam will come to you. What's been your sort 0:15:12.370 --> 0:15:16.390 of location of choice so far or series of locations? 0:15:16.390 --> 0:15:18.370 Most of it has actually just been going to and 0:15:18.370 --> 0:15:21.460 from work. I got a choice of two ways of 0:15:21.460 --> 0:15:23.080 getting to work. One is to sit on a bus 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.390 for an hour, and the other is to, uh, sit 0:15:25.390 --> 0:15:26.860 on a train for half an hour and then walk 0:15:26.860 --> 0:15:30.070 for half an hour. So I've usually gone for that option. 0:15:30.070 --> 0:15:33.040 So really nothing as much has changed. It's a case 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.420 of just going to and from work. It keeps me 0:15:37.420 --> 0:15:40.120 relatively fit. But no. The other location, of course, is 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.480 if anyone has watched has looked on Facebook. Um, we 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.690 did a few publicity shots of me running around the 0:15:46.690 --> 0:15:49.990 car park. And yes, if we talk about barriers, the 0:15:49.990 --> 0:15:52.330 barrier for me was it's been a very long time 0:15:52.330 --> 0:15:56.110 since I've done sprints, so I was aching like nothing. 0:15:56.290 --> 0:15:56.770 Else. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:57.850 After that. 0:15:57.850 --> 0:16:00.280 Oh no, I'm good. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.530 I remember seeing you on the Thursday too, and you 0:16:02.530 --> 0:16:07.120 were like, oh, I can barely walk. So I feel old. 0:16:07.900 --> 0:16:08.860 I am old. 0:16:09.370 --> 0:16:10.210 Oh yeah. One thing. 0:16:11.470 --> 0:16:16.480 And Lizzie, what's been your, um, your biking spots of choice? 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.580 Where have you like to cycle around? 0:16:18.850 --> 0:16:22.000 Well, unfortunately for me, most of my training during the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.300 week is done on an indoor trainer. So, uh, in 0:16:25.300 --> 0:16:29.140 my training room is my prime location. But I was 0:16:29.140 --> 0:16:32.410 fortunate enough to get out on Saturday. We had some 0:16:32.410 --> 0:16:36.670 really glorious weather here in Adelaide, and we rode to 0:16:36.670 --> 0:16:40.030 a place called Waterfall Gully, which is a lovely little 0:16:40.030 --> 0:16:44.260 hiking slash lunching spot in the Adelaide Hills, and we 0:16:44.260 --> 0:16:46.870 just sort of rode around there for a while, and 0:16:47.050 --> 0:16:49.210 the smell of the plants and the feel of the 0:16:49.210 --> 0:16:51.880 breeze and the sun and and seeing all the other 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.970 hikers and cyclists out was just absolutely amazing. And it 0:16:54.970 --> 0:16:57.820 just reminds me of how lucky I am to be mobile, 0:16:57.850 --> 0:17:02.290 to be able to ride or hike wherever I like. Hey, 0:17:02.290 --> 0:17:04.570 I'm a poet. There you go. I love it and 0:17:04.570 --> 0:17:07.720 be able to experience this, you know, this prime sort 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:08.740 of area. 0:17:08.950 --> 0:17:13.150 Okay, now let's see. We've already established you've broken your 0:17:13.150 --> 0:17:16.780 100 K barrier, but how many KS have you done 0:17:16.780 --> 0:17:18.940 specifically so far? 0:17:19.450 --> 0:17:25.960 174. Wow. I'm okay tonight. I've got another training session 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.840 and I think I'll be getting about 35 K done, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.540 so that will probably put me at about 210. Wow. 0:17:31.540 --> 0:17:35.200 Okay Sam how many have you done so far? It 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.480 sounds like both of us have a bit of catching 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:38.320 up to do. 0:17:38.860 --> 0:17:41.680 Yeah, if I calculate it properly. So as I said 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.620 on average since Monday. So yeah, it's a fair bit 0:17:44.620 --> 0:17:46.600 to go. Let's put it away a fair bit to go. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:46.990 Come on. 0:17:47.050 --> 0:17:47.470 Slacker. 0:17:47.470 --> 0:17:49.810 Let's go. Oh I'm the same again. 0:17:49.810 --> 0:17:52.390 Yeah I've only I've only done 20. I really need 0:17:52.390 --> 0:17:55.390 to step my game up. But um, it's still plenty 0:17:55.390 --> 0:17:59.140 of time to go. A lot of wonderful walking spots. Like, I've, um. 0:17:59.500 --> 0:18:01.990 I took a few photos the other day. I walked 0:18:01.990 --> 0:18:05.920 to the local lake, about half hour walk one way 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.970 from my house, and that's, um, two thirds of it's 0:18:09.970 --> 0:18:15.340 mostly through parkland. And there's an absolutely beautiful, big natural, like, 0:18:15.340 --> 0:18:19.120 natural steps down. And but you can take a ramp, um, 0:18:19.120 --> 0:18:22.630 which I actually do. It's much more accessible than trying 0:18:22.630 --> 0:18:26.800 to judge where the steps are. And with no depth perception. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.550 That's much, much safer to just go down the little 0:18:30.550 --> 0:18:34.850 gravel ramp. But, um. Yeah. Beautiful. Like. Beautiful trays. And, um, 0:18:34.850 --> 0:18:37.970 so that's certainly a great sort of 5 or 6 0:18:37.970 --> 0:18:41.750 k round trip. Now, I believe those walking photos there 0:18:41.750 --> 0:18:44.540 of the lake that I was talking about, those have 0:18:44.540 --> 0:18:48.470 gone up on the social media 400 k your way 0:18:48.470 --> 0:18:52.910 in the past couple of days. But um, Sam, speaking 0:18:52.910 --> 0:18:56.900 of socials and, you know, pages for people to head 0:18:56.900 --> 0:19:00.890 to and donate to hundred K your way and your 0:19:00.890 --> 0:19:06.050 specific campaigns, what's the best way for people to do that? 0:19:06.050 --> 0:19:10.460 If you go to the Vision Australia Radio website via radio.org, 0:19:10.550 --> 0:19:14.630 there is a link to the uh 100 K fundraising 0:19:14.630 --> 0:19:17.900 uh page. And if you find you'll find us both 0:19:17.900 --> 0:19:21.920 on the Adelaide teams page there, so you can see 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.730 how amazing my co-worker here is going. Or you can 0:19:25.730 --> 0:19:28.310 see me just plodding along. So if you want to 0:19:28.310 --> 0:19:32.150 support the winning team, then feel free to do that. 0:19:32.150 --> 0:19:34.670 And we I will not think anything less of you, 0:19:34.670 --> 0:19:38.270 but if you want to support the poor old man 0:19:38.270 --> 0:19:41.390 who is just plodding along, then feel free to support me. 0:19:41.420 --> 0:19:44.180 Sam, if I wasn't doing the hand required support, you 0:19:44.180 --> 0:19:47.480 are all right. I'll do the 100 K for you 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:48.650 if I could. No. 0:19:48.650 --> 0:19:49.190 Yeah, that's. 0:19:49.190 --> 0:19:50.750 That's just a that's exactly what. 0:19:50.750 --> 0:19:53.060 I want to hear. Thank you very much. 0:19:53.060 --> 0:19:53.780 Yeah. You're welcome. 0:19:53.780 --> 0:19:54.350 Anytime. 0:19:55.340 --> 0:20:00.230 Uh, that's RVA radio.org. And head to the hundred K 0:20:00.230 --> 0:20:03.350 Your Way page, which is right up on the front 0:20:03.350 --> 0:20:06.770 page front and center. You can't miss it and go 0:20:06.770 --> 0:20:09.980 in there and support the Adelaide team. Or you can 0:20:09.980 --> 0:20:13.070 of course support the Melbourne team and go check us out. 0:20:13.070 --> 0:20:16.280 We're just as good, but we'll see how things go. Um, 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.730 we'll get some healthy competition. We've already gone head to 0:20:19.730 --> 0:20:22.760 head with the Perth team with Kate and Co, so 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.120 that's been an interesting one. But yeah, if people are 0:20:26.120 --> 0:20:30.530 interested in perhaps following, you know, your socials or stuff 0:20:30.530 --> 0:20:33.770 like that, where could they possibly follow to you know 0:20:33.770 --> 0:20:36.770 say a bit a few more action shots and bits 0:20:36.770 --> 0:20:37.730 and pieces. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.390 So we have well I've been posting a little bit 0:20:41.390 --> 0:20:44.690 on Facebook. So VA radio. Yeah. So the VA Radio 0:20:44.690 --> 0:20:48.050 Network page on Facebook, uh, you can see how someone 0:20:48.050 --> 0:20:52.610 like me does actually try to run I suppose. Uh, otherwise, yes. 0:20:52.610 --> 0:20:55.520 If these same, uh, pages will actually give you progress 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.500 reports and things like that. I mean, Lizzy, have you been. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:58.640 Showing any. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.080 Action shots or fantastic. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.210 Things on upload, anything? Oh, yes. 0:21:02.210 --> 0:21:03.050 I can't. 0:21:03.140 --> 0:21:04.610 See someone's got someone's got. 0:21:04.610 --> 0:21:06.530 A new computer and hasn't worked out how to use 0:21:06.530 --> 0:21:06.830 it yet. 0:21:06.830 --> 0:21:08.840 So although I'm saying that I do have the most 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.710 epic video from Friday night at the Village Room, so. Well, 0:21:12.710 --> 0:21:16.610 if I can get that uploaded. Yes, that was pretty impressive. 0:21:16.730 --> 0:21:18.020 Now we shall. 0:21:18.020 --> 0:21:20.840 See what we shall see. So, uh, but otherwise you 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.440 may hear about our exploits in future on studio one, 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.600 but we'll probably wait until the end of April to 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.970 do that. Or as we're sort of halfway through right now. 0:21:29.090 --> 0:21:33.380 Well, that sounds incredibly exciting for our Studio One listeners 0:21:33.380 --> 0:21:36.440 out there to look forward to. So tune in in 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.920 late April to hear a little bit more from Sam 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.640 and Lizzy about how they've gone over this month of 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.720 April in their hundred K Your Way challenge. I've been 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.950 speaking today with the host of Studio One, Sam Richard 0:21:51.950 --> 0:21:55.370 and Lizzie Eastham, who have been wonderful enough today to 0:21:55.370 --> 0:21:58.730 join me to chat all about how they're going as 0:21:58.730 --> 0:22:01.880 they make their way towards 100 K over the month 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.510 of April, or in Liz's case, well over. So it's 0:22:05.510 --> 0:22:08.450 been an absolute pleasure to catch up with you both 0:22:08.450 --> 0:22:11.480 and hear all about it. Thanks so much for your time. 0:22:11.750 --> 0:22:12.620 Thank you for having us. 0:22:16.170 --> 0:22:20.370 And now here's Frances Kelland with a reader recommended. 0:22:20.370 --> 0:22:24.510 This week's reader recommended is Bitter Wash Road by Gary Disher. 0:22:24.510 --> 0:22:28.140 When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate gunfire, 0:22:28.140 --> 0:22:31.200 he finds himself cut off without backup. A pair of 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.340 thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely back roads, 0:22:35.340 --> 0:22:38.880 but Hersh's first thought is that backup is nearby and 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:41.430 about to put a bullet in him. That's because Hirsch 0:22:41.430 --> 0:22:45.960 is a whistleblower, formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now demoted 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.050 and exiled to a one cop station in South Australia's 0:22:49.050 --> 0:22:52.440 wheat belt called a dog by his brother. Officers with 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.890 threats and pistol cartridges in the mailbox. But the shots 0:22:55.890 --> 0:22:59.550 on Bitter Wash Road don't tally with Hirsch's assumptions. The 0:22:59.550 --> 0:23:01.860 truth turns out to be a lot more mundane, and 0:23:01.860 --> 0:23:04.680 the events that unfold subsequently a hell of a lot 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.070 more sinister. Let's hear a sample of Better Wash Road 0:23:08.070 --> 0:23:11.580 by Gary Disher. It's narrated by Ivan Neville. 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:14.700 On a Monday morning in September, three weeks into the job, 0:23:14.940 --> 0:23:17.850 the new copper Tibetan took a call from his sergeant. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:24.360 Shots fired on Bitter Wash Road. Know it vaguely, Sarge. 0:23:24.510 --> 0:23:28.500 Hirsh said vaguely. You've been sitting on your ass for 0:23:28.500 --> 0:23:30.960 three weeks, or you've been poking around like I asked. 0:23:31.710 --> 0:23:34.170 I'm poking around, Sarge. You can cover a lot of 0:23:34.170 --> 0:23:37.950 ground in that time. Sarge, I told you, didn't I? 0:23:37.980 --> 0:23:42.330 No dropkicks. Loud and clear, Sarge. No dropkicks on my watch, 0:23:42.330 --> 0:23:48.170 Sergeant Kropp said. And no smart asses. He switched gears, 0:23:48.170 --> 0:23:50.630 telling Hersh that a woman motorist had called it in. 0:23:51.350 --> 0:23:53.600 No name mentioned tourist on her way to look at 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.050 the wildflowers. Heard shots when she pulled over to photograph 0:23:57.050 --> 0:24:02.720 the ten hut crop. Paused. You're with me. The ten hut. 0:24:04.770 --> 0:24:09.350 Hirsch didn't have a clue. Sarge. So get your ass 0:24:09.350 --> 0:24:13.580 out there. Let me know what you find, Sarge. This 0:24:13.580 --> 0:24:16.820 is farming country, the sergeant said, in case Hirsch hadn't 0:24:16.820 --> 0:24:19.550 worked it out yet. The Shake Shack is likely to 0:24:19.550 --> 0:24:22.670 take pot shots at rabbits, but you never know. 0:24:23.300 --> 0:24:26.750 That was Bitter Wash Road by Gary Disher. 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Jess 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:32.490 was 17 when she was diagnosed with a rare degenerative 0:25:32.490 --> 0:25:37.560 eye disease, and although her diagnosis impacted her sporting dreams 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:42.750 as a netball, just pursued multiple sporting ambitions to represent 0:25:42.750 --> 0:25:46.740 her country and become the first Australian athlete to medal 0:25:46.740 --> 0:25:51.540 at a Summer and Winter games and successfully represented Australia 0:25:51.540 --> 0:25:57.600 in three sports in 2023. RMIT University awarded Jess an 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:01.980 honorary doctorate in Social Sciences, and she has been a 0:26:01.980 --> 0:26:06.960 past board director and advocate for vision 2020 Australia, as 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:11.850 well as a Vision Australia Ambassador. 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