{"id":7300,"date":"2019-01-16T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:19:47","slug":"run-for-the-kids-2019-entries-open-for-royal-childrens-hospital-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/run-for-the-kids-2019-entries-open-for-royal-childrens-hospital-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Run for the Kids 2019: Entries open for Royal Children\u2019s Hospital run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tg-tlc-storybody_intro\">\n<p>Nicole Gleeson and Elise Baines will be quick off the mark when registrations open for this year\u2019s\u00a0<span id=\"U643803276050qfB\">Herald Sun\/Transurban\u00a0<\/span>Run for the Kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The nurses are two of the hundred-plus staff at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital who get involved in the annual fun run year in, year out.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7301 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/r4k-400x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/r4k-400x277.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/r4k-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/r4k-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/r4k-800x554.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be my eighth consecutive Run for the Kids event,\u201d said Elise, 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do it for so many reasons; for the families and children we work with, for our colleagues, for our workplace, but also because of the feel-good atmosphere it never fails to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, 27, has always been passionate about fitness and views the event as both a personal challenge and show of support for her colleagues, patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the staff-wide team, Elise and myself are also members of the\u00a0Run for Remi team, which is in its second year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemi is the son of Susy, our colleague and mentor in the Dolphin ward. He has osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he relapsed last year we decided to also run in support of Remi and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely hit home when you\u2019re running for someone close to you and it\u2019s just as moving to see former patients participate as a way of saying thank you and to give back,\u201d said Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key is to let the tears roll out once you get past the finishing line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registrations opened at midday today (January 16) for the 2019\u00a0<span id=\"U643803276050GFI\">Herald Sun\/Transurban\u00a0<\/span>Run for the Kids, which takes place on Sunday, April 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information and to register for the 5.6km Woodlea short course or 12.9km long course, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.runforthekids.com.au\/\">runforthekids.com.au<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words Charlotte Brundett, photos Tony Gough &#8211; Herald Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Gleeson and Elise Baines will be quick off the mark when registrations open for this year\u2019s\u00a0Herald Sun\/Transurban\u00a0Run for the Kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":7302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions\/7304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}