FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T
An ongoing fundraising effort to celebrate the freedom to be out doing the things I thought I'd never do again in support of those who still can't. No physical challenge can ever come close to the struggle of living with chronic illness day-to-day; the resilience to get up and fight will never compare with the resilience to simply keep enduring when hope seems empty and to fight is to lose ground. I walk, run and swim for those who can't: Long Covid, CFS, the hundreds of other chronic disabilities out there. Because I was given a second chance.
'Remember us. Because when we do return—and we will—it will be with a fire fiercer than ever. With a drive and discipline that will be unstoppable. For inspiration is born of suffering, and only in loss can we truly understand the gift we once held. Despair turns to anger turns to impetus, and the fire deep within burns hotter than ever before. One day, in a month, in a year, in five years, it will be our day.’
2025
End-to-End: Mountains of Freedom
A 2500km journey from Land's End to John O'Groats via the best of the UK’s mountains: the Welsh 3000s, the English 3000s, and the Scottish 4000s. The final chapter in reclaiming a life and identity lost to half a decade of debilitating Long Covid. 115 days, 70,000m, 68 portions of tinned fish, one extended bout of food poisoning (unrelated), and endless legions of nonplussed sheep.
IMAGES | FILM (coming soon)