This morning I switched my walking shoes for my swimming goggles for a single 2.5km swim (100 lengths of the pool). I completed my Hip Dip in 1 hour and 7 minutes!
Diff-ability & Me: when someone else says what’s in my head!
Did you watch Alex Brooker: Disability and Me on BBC iPlayer? I caught it last weekend and I’m so glad that I did. I have rarely watched anything about disability that I could fully identify with.
Winter walks & wobbly hips
So the good news is I’ve now completed 41 miles of my virtual Pennine Way challenge. If I’d been walking the real trail, I’d be in Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire by now.
Lockdown Walking Challenge: little and often on the virtual Pennine Way
I wholeheartedly support the need for another national lockdown until we are all covid-immunised and it’s safe to mingle again. My belief that it’s the right thing to do,
The ‘Wonky Dog’. Yoga and hip dysplasia.
So I got up this morning and decided that I was definitely going to seize up if I didn’t take action to get more exercise during the collective lockdown.
The Freedom to walk differently. Diff-abled on tour!
Today I walked the Freedom Trail in Boston. It’s a 2.5 mile walk that passes 16 nationally significant historic sites from meeting houses to burial grounds and a ship,
100 miles per year! My ups and downs with hip dysplasia
100 miles is a long way for anyone to walk. For me, with hip dysplasia, it feels like a very big achievement. Two weeks ago I completed the South Downs Way and in the end it took me 15 days of walking,
