Category: Step around The World Challenge

Yippee!

I’ve received my certificate and medal for my Step Around the World Challenge, raising money for the Macular Society at Easter.

I must say. I do feel like wandering around wearing the medal just ‘cos I can.

It was more of a mental challenge.

Anyone that knows me, will know that I’m obstropalous (my Dad used to call me it. I don’t even know of that’s a real word) so I was gonna complete this regardless. All in one go.

I’ve learned that you can get through anything if you put your mind to it.

I only started walking/hiking really in February this year due to having to cope with a mental health situation.

I needed to make myself better.

I found that it took my mind somewhere else and seeing nature and being outdoors really helped.

When I started bobbling about initially, i did 3 miles, then I got to 5 miles, then 8 miles comfortably, I decided that I must do something positive with this random new skill I was enjoying so much.

Do many miles than what I was comfortable. Take me out of my comfort zone. Stretch myself mentally.

It was originally supposed to be 10 miles on the Saturday, then 5 on the Sunday at the Easter weekend.

This was suggested by my son. So I thought if he can think I can do it, I can.

But, once I walked around Derwentwater and got back into Keswick town centre, it was 11 miles.

I decided that it would be easier to walk an extra 4 miles that day than wake up on Sunday, aching and wondering what on earth I was doing and why I had set this challenge for no reason whatsoever.

So thought I will just carry on. Do it all in one day.

This is where your brain power kicks in.

A mental challenge rather than a physical one.

Don’t get me wrong. My hips at 13 miles felt like they had been smashed repeatedly by a hammer.
Considering, just a short while earlier in the year, I was moaning about walking a mile or so into the town center at the lakes.

Thank you to everyone that messaged me willing me on.

Thank you for watching the live feeds on Facebook and Twitch.

Liking, sharing and donating such an amount that I never could have expected at all.

I set the amount at £100.

And then I thought I was pushing it.

Hopefully this money will help to find a cure or treatment that many of us within the Macular Dystrophy spectrum, desperately want and need.

♥

Together we can achieve anything! Thank you so much. £516! For the Macular Society.

Will update you all when I get notification that the Macular Society has received the money.

£501. Thank you all so much.

Goodbye to my beloved green boots. They have worn out on the sole. Whilst repairing my own. (soul)

Have ordered new ones. The same, because they are the comfiest footwear ever, but different colour. Black/purple.

They have taken me around beautiful places. Whilst making me fitter and stronger, mentally and physically.

Becoming the best me ever.

Just started walking a few months ago when I needed to help myself battle with my mental health.

I’ve done things I’ve never thought I was capable of.

Including organising and achieving in one day, a 15 mile walk. Wasn’t what I set out to do, but I pushed myself.

Agreeing to attend the sight loss course I’ve got this week. I still don’t want to go, but I am.

By saying yes to everything. Meeting old and new people, Being out of your comfort zone.

It’s surprising what you can do.