 Thanks very much Kimberley and thanks for the opportunity to be here to launch the event with you this morning. I think I'm trying to remember when I first heard I think it was a direct approach from you and from Tony to talk about opportunities that could come from having the Centenary Trail open and you know how we build up I guess participation along the Centenary Trail. I actually had the opportunity to launch the Centenary Trail back in must have been October I think of 2013 and it was at Hall and I made a commitment that I would walk the trail at that point and I would get it done within a year and I'm on track. I did set myself a challenge of one one stage per month and I'm a little off that but I'm up to this stage actually which is why you're all here today at Stromlo because I was due to walk off up there and finish the stage six to Tagrenong this afternoon but obviously events over the weekend have required me to change my diary this afternoon and I thank you very much for the condolences for the curtain I'll make sure that I pass them on to all his friends and colleagues that are grieving today but so apologies for being out here in the wind but this is I guess and you know just such a great thing for Canberra to have to have this Centenary Trail where we can walk I guess circumnavigate the ACT in a sense and also access parts of the ACT that we've never been able to before particularly up on the northern stage from Watson to Hall where you can go up to One Tree Hill which previously hasn't been open to the public and I can say from experience don't do it on a 38 degree day which is what I did that was there were some low moments there I can tell you but it's absolutely exquisite and I'm also told that this stage along the Murrumbiki River is absolutely beautiful as well so we're really excited we're very happy to partner with Early Bird events and to support this in its inaugural year I hope that more and more events come along this is exactly why we had the Centenary Trail built that it was a legacy initiative from the Centenary of Canberra year but that we would encourage people to get out and see the sights of Canberra be healthy and support all the work that organisations like the Heart Foundation do so I'm very supportive of the Heart Foundation being the charity partner they're excellent partners in encouraging Canberrans to lead healthy lifestyles and their leadership in this area is second to none I would also say one of the great things about the Centenary Trail for people who might not do a lot of walking is that making tracks who designed the trail and built the trail the bits that weren't already existing trail did it in a way that it's accessible for the vast majority of the trail there are a couple of bits along the way where it would be hard in a wheelchair to use the trail but the gradients have kept it a really decent level I can tell you I speak from experience if you want to go up the mountains you can but you can also do it if you're if you know if you have some limitation on your mobility and that was to make sure that people even though you don't do trail running or have a lot of experience can actually use the trail and get around it really easily so something a lot of people don't know they might think that it's out of their reach it's definitely not although yeah choose your weather days on particular stages learn from experience there but thank you it's lovely to be here and have some focus on my day and I'm really excited about this thank you to all the ambassadors that have come on and are going to help us promote it because that's essential as well and I look forward to taking part I haven't actually decided which one to do yet I did I've done a 30k walk and I have to say I was pretty tired at the end of it so somewhere between 25 and 50 I think I think the hundreds out of my reach but I look forward to taking part and doing what I can to support it and formally launch Canberra 100 challenge today thank you