After starting off with a 5K Parkrun in 2017, and progressing to my first 10K run earlier this year to climbing Snowdon over the summer I have decided to really ramp things up in 2019.

It’s almost time for me to head off on my biggest challenge so far, just one week until I set off from St Bees Head in Cumbria on my 192 mile trek across country to Robin Hoods Bay over on the east Coast of Yorkshire. Where the time has gone since Ruth suggested this is anyone's guess, but it’s involved a lot of hard work making sure I’m fit enough and trying to condition my legs for what I’m sure will be an exhausting but totally exhilarating experience!

Why do I get myself into these messes?  It's now only four months until I set off from St Bees in the Lake District towards Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, following Alfred Wainwright's 192 mile Coast to Coast Walk.  This is part of my 1000 mile in 2019 challenge which, as it says in the title, is me waling and running 1000 miles this year.  The reasons I'm doing this are threefold; firstly to raise funds for Pumping Marvellous who have been an amazing source of support since my diagnosis with heart failure in 2016, secondly to help raise awareness of heart failure of which there will be more later, and thirdly to prove to myself that I can do this.  The 1000 miles itself isn't too bad, after all it's less than 3 miles a day and I hope to at least do double the target, but the Coast to Coast is 15days without a rest day walking between 8 and 25 miles a day and a total ascent of 10km which is higher than Mount Everest.

Here's a quick run down of the different stages the walk is split into.  If you fancy joining me on any then just give me a shout!