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What is the Fat C Walking Club?

Posted by pesky | April 6, 2008 .

About 12 months ago three fat and unhealthy lawyers working for a large law firm in Melbourne Australia decided to get off their backsides and start walking during lunch time, with the aim of doing so at least 3 times per week. The “Fat Colleagues Walking Club” (or “FCWC” for short) was born!

Since our first walk, a number of fellow colleagues have joined us. One of them has become very fit as a result of joining our club! In fact he became so fit, he left our law firm and although he still keeps in touch he is no longer a member of the FCWC as he no longer meets either qualification! Churchill, Dina and Pesky

Pictured are Churchill (our only graduate to date) Dina and Pesky.  We have mapped out a series of walks around the CBD of Melbourne, ranging in time from 45 minutes to 60 minutes to complete the circuit.

The object is to get in a good walk “door to door” within an hour’s lunch break.

We find the walks reduce stress, improve mood and help us to lose (or at worst, maintain) weight.

In addition, we have discovered all sorts of interesting places around Melbourne, and can for example watch the progress of tiny cygnets growing up on the banks of the Yarra River under the watchful eyes of their parents, or note the opening and closing of new restaurants in Chinatown. [This is a very important activity, which is explained in further detail elsewhere in this blog]!

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  1. Johann April 8, 2008 6:18 pm

    WOW….what a fantastic idea.

    I think i might get my group to start one aswell.

    Keep it up guys. GREAT IDEA!

    Regards,
    Johann

  2. Woody May 6, 2008 4:52 am

    I have never seen such a terrible waste of space in all my sorry days -These people should have been in Burma at the weekend

  3. churchill May 21, 2008 7:29 am

    As a recent (and so far only) graduate (summa con larder) of the FCWC, and as such living proof that its methods are both effective and nutritious, it is perhaps, but only perhaps, proper that I enlighten interested readers as to what those methods are. But before I do so, I should first acknowledge a conflict of interest. Namely that I do not subscribe to the apparent majority (in kilo terms at least) view in FCWC that only Chinatown offers appropriate lunchtime fare. I believe that our collective experience has also been that Maria’s Trattoria in Victoria Market caters for the discerning walkers palate, and that Maria’ s excellent veal escalope or spaghetti marinara provide additional reasons (as if any were needed!) to fearlessly tread the Melbourne sidewalks and riverbanks.

    Be that as it may, I return to to the FCWC’s methods and raison d’etre. A key ingredient has been, by means of the FCWC Constitution, to ration attendance at FCWC approved restaurants according to the following formulae:
    (a) 5 walks (min 40 minute duration)(each a “walk”) = 1 lunch (max 4 courses)(“lunch”)
    (b) Min 10 walks each calendar month
    (c) For each walk to qualify (for purposes of lunch), it must be taken within 3 working days of another (qualifying) walk
    (d) For each lunch in excess of 4 courses, qualifying walks in (a) increase to 7 for next 3 lunches.

    Both Dina and Quirky will, I think, support me in expressing doubt as to whether Pesky (less summiteer more sommelier) has respected these criteria (even pro rata) and anticipate his inevitable defences of “human rights” and “fair go”.

    When all is said, I owe FCWC a debt. Now, as I now run round the Tan, waving at my old classmates on the Yarra bend, I reflect on the stamina it taught me, including on the footpath.

    This weekend marks our 2nd off-site, this time in Tasmania. Pesky says that two heads are better than one and I can only imagine what he has in mind.

    churchill