Hips, trips, training and getting kids outside!
This is the last part in my China trek series as I took part in a charity trek along the Great Wall of China to raise money for The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. Last time I conquered the Heavenly Ladder and was feeling good at all I had achieved. Today would be the last day of…
This is next part of my China trek series where I took part in a charity trek on the Great Wall of China. You can see what happened yesterday and how I walked more watchtowers than anticipated in this post; Jinshanling, a day of Watchtowers and emotions. Day 6 of my China trek, yesterday had…
This is part of my China trek series and today on day 5 the trek starts from Jinshanling. We had walked to our accommodation yesterday after a challenging day covering 27 watch towers across remote sections of the wall. The trek today would take us to remote original sections of the wall, mostly in good…
This is the third part of my China trek series as I trek parts of the Great Wall of China for charity. I felt good after yesterday’s trek and ready for what would be one of the longest and toughest days. We’d spent the night in home-stay accommodation and our rooms were off the courtyard dining…
This is the second instalment from my recent China trek adventures where I took part in a 5-day charity trek on the Great Wall of China. Today our trek would start properly and I was excited, but after the shock of yesterday’s walk also worried that maybe it would be too hard for me to…
I’m back from my Great Wall of China trek something as you know I’ve been working towards since last year. I’m going to split my adventure across a few blog posts so that I can tell you about my experience and show you a few of the hundreds of photos I took. It was everything…
In three days, I’m setting off on one of my biggest journeys and physical challenges, next stop is China! You’ll know from reading my blog that this is something I’ve been working towards since my recovery from two lots of hip surgery, over a year of exercises, training and working towards going on a charity…
With the children staying at their Grandparent’s this weekend we were able to do a much bigger walk up two of Yorkshire’s famous peaks, Whernside and Ingleborough. After our walk last week to Brimham Rocks my back felt sore and with my hip progress being checked by my physio I mentioned it whilst I was…