This summer we (me and Nat) are doing Wainwright’s Coast to Coast. It’s been a bucket list thing for nearly a decade; and after years of planning, a cancelled COVID attempt, and life sticking it’s oar in, it’s finally here… and we actually have to do it now.

The 192 mile trail starts from St Bees in Cumbria, traversing the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, and North York Moors National Parks, and finishes in Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire.

Starting on July 21st, the plan is to do it in 7 days, me on foot, and Nat on a combo of foot and two wheels. Over the week, we’ll average just over a marathon a day, with a total elevation gain of approximately 8.8km, the height of Everest.

We would really, really appreciate any donations that you can give to three amazing charities that mean a lot to us (it’s been such a long time coming that we couldn’t just pick one):

- MacMillan Cancer Care

- The British Heart Foundation

- Campaign for National Parks - we go through three of them on this route, and this charity does some amazing work promoting and conserving the beautiful scenery and diverse wildlife that we’re lucky enough to have right on our doorsteps

We are SO LUCKY that we get to do this, but I’m not going to pretend that training hasn’t been really hard! I’ve been running every day of 2024 and we had to really amp it up after the football season finished to fit the miles in. Our biggest training run was doing the 100km Cotswolds Way Ultra over two days on 22nd/23rd June. Have we trained enough since the football season finished? Unsure. But armed with a bulk order of blister plasters and K-tape, what could possible go wrong?

We appreciate every donation so much - it keeps our spirits high as the toenail count becomes low! Obviously feel free to give to the charity you would prefer to, but we’d love it if we can end up with an even split. For those interested in checking in, the plan is to hopefully post a live tracking link each day so you can check that we’re still alive as we go.

Thank you guys, and I promise we won’t ask you for money again for a long while 😉 X.

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