50 challenges - ideas and suggestions
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The challenges - how can you help?
As you can see this list of ideas and suggestions is very varied and many of them have been suggested by friends and family. The more ideas the better so please send me any suggestions! Anything can be added to the list - I'm open (ish!) to all ideas.
I also need your help please to make some of these a reality. Where do I go to pose nude or ride a racehorse?! Who can help me put together a stand up routine? (Having said that I'd be more than happy for many suggestions on this 'out of comfort zone' list not to happen - they really really scare me!)
If you've got a suggestion or can help me out I'd really appreciate it - please email me. NB all activity costs will be covered by me or by people helping me out so any money raised will go direct to the charities.
NB Covid-19 has not surprisingly had a big impact on my ability to complete these challenges within two years so it is now 50 in my 50s - they will all get done, just not by September 2021!
Thank you!
As you can see this list of ideas and suggestions is very varied and many of them have been suggested by friends and family. The more ideas the better so please send me any suggestions! Anything can be added to the list - I'm open (ish!) to all ideas.
I also need your help please to make some of these a reality. Where do I go to pose nude or ride a racehorse?! Who can help me put together a stand up routine? (Having said that I'd be more than happy for many suggestions on this 'out of comfort zone' list not to happen - they really really scare me!)
If you've got a suggestion or can help me out I'd really appreciate it - please email me. NB all activity costs will be covered by me or by people helping me out so any money raised will go direct to the charities.
NB Covid-19 has not surprisingly had a big impact on my ability to complete these challenges within two years so it is now 50 in my 50s - they will all get done, just not by September 2021!
Thank you!
How many challenges have I completed?
- Walked & ran (virtually) from Lands End to John O'Groats (874 miles)
- Ran half and walked half of the Circuit of Bath (22 miles) April
- Slept outside for the night (no tent, just with a groundsheet and sleeping bag) to raise funds for and awareness of the homeless
- Sat in a frozen water trough in sub zero temperatures
- Swam in our (freezing cold) pond over Christmas
- Learnt a new skill - taught myself basic plumbing skills and have so far a) sourced/isolated/repaired a major leak and b) repaired radiators that have been broken for 15 years (very pleased with myself!)
- Survived a tumultuous year of work (changing our business model to accommodate Covid, leading the business through its sale and taking on the challenge of redundancy)
- Learnt how to paddleboard
- Learnt a new skill - hairdressing!
- Went for a 1.75 mile run - backwards
- Created a lockdown TikTok
- Ran the (virtual) Bath Half
- Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
- Started to do open water swimming
- Ran the Circuit of Bath (22 miles) Sept
- Walked the Cotswold Way
Challenges currently underway or booked:
- Walk from Home to Home (ie from my parents on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border to Bath) - have got as far as Newent (paused due to Covid)
- Volunteer at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - have applied, waiting to hear
- Run another London Marathon - didn't get a place in the 2021 ballot so will try again next year
- Learn to knit and then knit a shawl - underway
- Try 50 different gins - (very happily) underway
- Visit 50 football stadiums with Ben - over halfway (paused due to Covid)
- Plant 50 trees - have planted 25 so far
Challenge suggestions remaining:
Quite challenging: my bucket list and other physical challenges
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Very challenging: seriously out of my comfort zone
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Others: saying yes, learning, making time, giving back and other random things
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