WALK 1000 supplement
64-page #walk1000miles supplement
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#<strong>WALK</strong><strong>1000</strong>MILES2019<br />
DO IT FOR HEALTH<br />
‘I am so much<br />
FITTER!’<br />
My medication for a blood<br />
condition causes anaemia and<br />
my haemoglobin counts have<br />
gone down a lot recently. But<br />
through walking at least 25<br />
miles every week, my heart and<br />
lungs seem to have learned to<br />
cope amazingly with having<br />
a bit less oxygen around.<br />
Thanks to #walk<strong>1000</strong>miles<br />
I can honestly say, “Eat my<br />
shorts, Anaemia!” I feel brilliant.<br />
Jennie McGinlay, 57<br />
‘Got my life back’<br />
I had a new hip last year and since doing the challenge I can<br />
walk miles now with no pain! I walked around Brockholes<br />
nature reserve when I hit <strong>1000</strong> miles and went for<br />
a midnight swim in the River Ribble afterwards!<br />
I’ve got my life back. Ann Wheeler, 60<br />
‘Don’t let ill<br />
health be an<br />
excuse’<br />
In January I had stomach<br />
surgery, in February I was<br />
in bed for three months<br />
after foot surgery, and on<br />
my first day back to work<br />
I fell and broke my wrist<br />
and two ribs. I have a bad<br />
back and issues with my<br />
whole nerve system<br />
through my body. But<br />
because I was part of this<br />
challenge it just made me<br />
walk! When I finished<br />
I was a mixture of<br />
surprised, proud and<br />
over the bloody moon!<br />
Suzanne Gibbs,<br />
55, Gosport<br />
Catch me if you can!<br />
A year ago I went for a walk with friends and<br />
I was stopping for a breather up the hills and<br />
bringing up the rear. Now I have to wait at the<br />
top now for everyone to catch up!<br />
Alan Hood, Sheffield<br />
‘More determined…<br />
with cracking pins!’<br />
In January I was at my heaviest weight and<br />
the most unfit I have ever been. Now I am<br />
lighter, leaner, fitter, healthier, I have the<br />
determination to take on new challenges<br />
in different areas in my life and have<br />
a cracking pair of pins!<br />
Maria Hutchings, 51, Southampton<br />
‘Literally kept<br />
me sane’<br />
I was diagnosed with<br />
Polymyalgia rheumatica in<br />
February and this challenge<br />
kept me from going stir<br />
crazy when I could barely<br />
walk. Getting out – even for just a half-mile walk<br />
really was a tonic. Now walking has become<br />
a part of my ‘normal’ day and I jumped for<br />
joy when I completed the <strong>1000</strong> miles!<br />
Ruth Farrell, 50, Marske<br />
My seizures are<br />
down to about 1 to<br />
3 per week. 85% of<br />
them occur indoors<br />
so I spend my time<br />
outdoors and I’m<br />
probably fitter than<br />
I’ve ever been.<br />
Paul Board, Conwy<br />
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