Chris Weston

Chris's Marathon Walk With bergen on 3 June 2023

Fundraising for Veterans Aid
£1,091
raised
by 37 supporters
Veterans Aid

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We care for veterans in crisis to restore independence and dignity.

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I’ve done a few different challenges for Veterans’ Aid since my 2007 car crash: a 5K run, Wales’s three highest peaks, The Paras 10, The Fan Dance Race and 6 times up and down Butser Hill in the South Downs (to simulate the Fan Dance's 15-miles distance and 88m elevation change).

Two aims, one to raise money for a great cause and two to give me a target to help manage the depression I’ve had since my motorbike crash in 1994 that left me with chronic pain and a mobility disability (doctors said I wouldn't walk again!!!) and a car crash in 2007 that made things worse. Theses events cost me my RAF careers as and Engineering Officer and then as a Chartered Enginner as a civilian in the MoD.

Doing the 26.3miles/42.2km in The South Downs means I'm near home in case I fall and hurt myself (again!!!).  It'll be a there-and-back route accompanied by some of my RAF oppos.  I'll have my trusty 35lb/16kg bergen and some comfy boots.



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Veterans Aid

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