Hyrox for Awareness & Remembrance

Every Rep for a Reason: Raising Funds for Dementia Support Australia

Hi everyone, we’re Tayla and Shae.

After months of talking (and overthinking!), we’ve finally taken the leap and signed ourselves up for a Hyrox event. But this isn’t just a fitness challenge, for us it’s something deeply personal.

In 2024, Shae lost her grandma to Alzheimer’s dementia. She was more than a grandmother she was her best friend and her comfort person. Watching someone you love fade in front of you is something you can never prepare for, and it changes you forever.

Tayla is walking a similar path, she lost her Grandma in 2013 to Lewy body dementia, and her Nanna has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Vascular dementia. Seeing someone you love struggle with confusion, memory loss, and loss of independence is heartbreaking, and the impact on families is enormous.

Dementia touches millions of lives, but until it happens within your own family, you don’t realise how quickly it can take over, and how heavy the emotional, mental, and physical toll really is. It’s lonely, it’s confronting, and it’s constant.

That’s why we’re dedicating this Hyrox challenge to Dementia Australia.
We want to turn our grief, stress, and heartbreak into something positive, something that brings awareness, support, and hope to other families going through the same thing.

This event is our way of honouring our grandmothers, and every person who has been affected by dementia. It’s our reminder that while dementia takes memories, it can’t take love, and it can’t take the strength of the people who keep showing up for their loved ones.

Over the next 17 weeks, we’ll be documenting our training, the good, the hard, and everything in between, as we push ourselves physically and mentally with one goal in mind:
to raise funds and awareness for Dementia Australia and to honour the people we love.

If you’re able to donate, share, or even send a message of support, it would mean the world to us.

Thank you for helping us make a difference for all those touched by dementia 💜