2010 Gold Coast Airport Marathon
Once again a bunch of clients at Focus Fitness Massage and Studio Gym in Mudgeeraba, are getting together to form a team and entering the 2010 Gold Coast Marathon.

Team Entry Guide

FOCUS TEAM MUDGEERABA
Embrace the next step towards the 2010 Gold Coast Airport Marathon staged annually on the first weekend in July, the 32nd Gold Coast Airport Marathon is set to motivate and challenge more than 23,000 people of all ages and abilities.

To enter into the TEAM NAME team for the 2010 Gold Coast Airport Marathon, please follow the below instructions.
Step 1: Go to http://www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au/
Step 2: Entry _ Enter Online
Step 3: Click ‘To enter online “CLICK HERE”’
Step 4: Are you entering as part of a team _ ‘I would like to search for an existing team’
Step 5: Click Continue
Step 6: Enter the team name FOCUS TEAM MUDGEERABA and hit the green tick to search and display the team
Step 7: After the search, the team name will appear. Click the green tick next to the team name.
Step 8: In the password section enter FOCUS2010 and click join.
Step 9: Once the team code is accepted, you then progress through the normal entry steps –
Step 10: Select the event and category and click continue
Step 11: Select specific event category/price and click continue
Step 12: Enter all the personal field and click continue
Step 13: Select any extras/functions and click continue
Step 14: Review the entry and click Pay online with visa/MasterCard
Step 15: Proceed to pay online via credit card.
Step 16: You will soon receive a confirmation email to your elected email address.

You are now entered as part on the FOCUS TEAM MUDGEERABA team for the 2010 Gold Coast Airport Marathon!

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People new to Mudgeeraba may not be aware of the selection of sports activities that are available in this well established community on the western side of the Pacific Motorway near Robina on the Gold Coast

We came across this video that highlights just some of the regular sporting events

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At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.

“Do you think they’ll let me play?”

After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

“When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.

Where is the natural order of things in my son?”

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued:

“I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.”

Then he told the following story:

Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.

Shay asked, “Do you think they’ll let me play?”

I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play.

The boy looked around for guidance and said, “We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.“

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt.

I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field.

Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.

The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over.

The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.

Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates.

Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first!

Run to first!’

Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.

He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.

By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball, the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.

He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head.

Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay’

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third!

Shay, run to third!’

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’

Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team

‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, ‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world’.

Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

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Girls from the Hinterland District Netball Association have been training at Focus Fitness Massage and Studio Gym in Mudgeeraba for the past three years.

“Norm’s dedication to his work is immeasurable,”writes Debbie, the Representative Convenor. “He understands what is required for the girls to be prepared for both rep trials and the long rep season which ensues”

“He commands the respect of our girls, while bringing out the best in them”

Norm offers a very competitive rate to train the netball players.

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Swim4Kids was founded in 2007, with the idea of swimming from the Gold Coast to Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane.

“Norm and the guys at Focus Fitness were one of the first local businesses to help out and the amount of time and dedication from the beginning that was put in was truly remarkable, ” writes Stuart Jeffries, founder of Swim4Kids

Norm’s been rubbing shoulders with some well-known faces, including former olympic swimmer Geoff Heugill .

Swimmers were offered bootcamp sessions at Focus Fitness for two months prior to the swim. Norm’s motivation was due to his commitment to the young patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

“His sense of dedication to a swim that may or may not have worked can never be repaid.

Swim4Kids has now gone on to raise over $225,000 in three years and looking to grow even bigger. All thanks to people like Norm and the team at Focus Fitness and Massage Studio Gym at Mudgeeraba”

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Focus Fitness has worked closely with the Mudgeeraba Redbacks Junior Rugby League Club, over the past five years.

Norm has assisted the Redbacks with Strength and Conditioning programs for the players during pre-season training periods

Another example of how Focus Fitness and Massage Studio Gym has helped the local sproting community of Mudgeeraba and surrounding areas.

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