Cinda Herrett is one determined running sister, who continues to inspire her local community, and the running community across Australia.
Cinda, 40, first ran in her 20’s and began to step it up in her early 30’s after the arrival of her daughter Indy.
When Indy was just a few years old Cinda moved to the Echuca region.
Around this time life took a turn for the worse, which led to Cinda taking action and spending time in rehab in Melbourne. It was during rehab that she began walking on the treadmill, and then to the park with a couple of others who were also battling alcohol addiction.
On her return to Echuca Cinda gradually got back into running.
Running in Echuca introduced Cinda to a whole new set of people, whose lives had a different focus. This has been life changing for Cinda and her family.
Over the past five years Cinda has run with several running groups, joined the Johnno’s Run team who fundraise to build homes for people with disability, had a personal coach, has inspired others to run and has even travelled to Berlin where she run a marathon. Participating in an event with 44,000 others is an experience she’ll never forget.
Cinda has faced other battles, particularly recurring stress fractures. Currently Cinda is working on strength training to help address this. Taking action again, she reached out on social media to Lisa Weightman, Oymplian and Asutralia’s fastest female marathon runner who has experienced 9 stress fractures. Cinda was thrilled that Lisa responded to her request for advice.
Another opportunity for Cinda arose in 2017 when she was asked to co-direct parkrun in Echuca. This came at a great time for CInda as she was taking it easy due to injury and enabled her to stay connected to the running community.
Cinda enjoys a healthy lifestyle, which is evidenced by her healthy glow – whether she’s running, walking the dogs, directing parkrun or supporting the community Cinda always has a word of encouragement for others.
Cinda has a motto she loves to share, “When you think you can’t go any further, just take one more step”.
This motto doesn’t only apply to running – we need to take the first step and then with each next step we are closer to accomplishing our goals.
