Become a Hero of the Heart in 2010.
Channel your footsteps into well-earned dollars towards research at The Heart Research Institute just choose HRI as your favourite charity when you register for your next Marathon or Fun Run.

What do I do?

1. Register in the race
2. Create a fundraising page
3. Ask all your friends and family to support you!

Why?

1. Take on an event as your own personal challenge.
2. It's a great way to set your personal goal, achieve it and fundraise at the same time!
3. Achieve amazing things beyond your personal health and fitness...

So take the challenge today and get inspired!

4 July 2010	18 July 2010	1 August 2010
Register for the Race	Register for the Race	Register for the Race
Start your Fundraising page	Start your Fundraising page	Start your Fundraising Page

8 August 2010	29 August 2010	29 August 2010
Register for the Race	Register for the Race	Register for the Race
Start your Fundraising page	Start your Fundraising page	Start your Fundraising page

Become a Hero of the Heart.
It's easy! Once you've registered in the race above, click through by creating your own personalised online fundraising page by clicking through to any of the above races.

In just minutes, you can upload images and inspirational words and build your own page and help bring us a step closer to finding a cure for Heart Disease. Once you are happy with it, you can approach your friends, family and colleagues by emailing them the unique link to your webpage. Each donation is recorded on your page along with messages of support from all your friends.

Click here to see an example fundraising page:

INSPIRATIONAL HEROES Be inspired from other Heroes' stories and photos from past events.

We would love to hear from you, email photos (training and lead up to... before or after) your race or a story of why you choose The Heart Research Institute as your favourite charity.

GOOD LUCK!

With the growing amount of obesity, leading to heart disease and diabetes in our community it is so important that people continue to build a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE for themselves and their families.

There is a worldwide epidemic known as Metabolic Syndrome – a condition that sadly is reversing the previous decline in heart disease. Metabolic Syndrome occurs with great frequency in people who are overweight and it’s now estimated that more than 20% of Australians have the condition. Alarmingly, it’s appearing with greater frequency in young Australians – even children – and this also raises the chances of developing diabetes.