Gary's March march

[Update 1st April] (No it's not a joke) April is here and the March march is over. A big thank you to everyone who has donated already and to those about to. The final score was 448,800 steps and 197.7 miles. I did try to push on to 200 but it was never going to happen. [Update 27th March] I've done it. I've completed the walk from the Royal Marsden cancer hospital in London to the Royal Manchester children's hospital. When I updated my log this morning to include the weekend, I found I was only 5.7 miles short of the 172 miles total. I've just walked in the house and seen 5.72 miles showing on my FitBit. I'm done, I'm finished, I'm there. I can relax a little now. I still have the original challenge of 10,000 steps every day left to complete but that should be easy enough to do. Oddly, the hardest part of this wasn't the walking, but the knowledge that no matter how well I did today, I would have to start again tomorrow. [Update 22nd March] Yesterday saw the end of week 3 of my challenge, and what a week it was.  Week 2 was relatively easy, but that changed. To get my mileage in I have to do a 3 mile walk every lunchtime as well as have something to eat.  Three times I didn't get a lunch break, which meant one night I was walking country lanes under pitch black skies, and the other two I had to delay driving home so that I could get my walk in. Not ideal. Yesterday was a strain as I was feeling stressed and really didn't want to go out. Then I ended up walking up hill (my walk climbs 240ft) into a strong head wind. However, by the time I was walking back (down hill) the sun was out, the wind had gone, and all was right with the world. Then we get to today.  I suppose for this time of year I've been very lucky with only the odd drizzle or breeze to deal with. However, today rain stopped play. I got wet just walking to the car, so came up with the ideal of walking round B&Q. Unfortunately that didn't work as the GPS wasn't working and it only recorded a fraction of the distance I actually walked.  I will get my 10,000 steps in, but I won't manage the 12,500 steps or the 5.5 miles. Isn't it ironic that the weather turned for the worse once it was officially spring :-) Thankfully I'm in front having done 316,128 steps which equates to 138.13 miles. That only leaves 34 miles left to do before next Friday [Update 13th March] This week has seen "The Big C" claim another victim, and my family lose another member to this foul parasite. Today, more people survive cancer than don't and this is thanks to Cancer Research and others. Please give what you can. Yesterday saw me pass the 72 mile mark, which means I've got less than 100 miles left to go. [Update 8th March] We are at the end of week 1. So far I have should have done 70,000 steps and covered 35 miles. I have actually done 96,568 steps and covered 41.8 miles. Cancer Research said that 10,000 steps was the equivalent to 5 miles. They were wrong, it's nearer 11,500. Cancer Research said that it 10,000 steps (5 miles) for 31 days (155 miles) was the equivalent of walking from London to Manchester. They were wrong, it's over 170. I have measured the distance from the Royal Marsden cancer hospital in London to the Royal Children's cancer hospital in Manchester and it's 172 miles. That equates to near as damn it 400,000 steps, or 12,800 per day every day for the whole of March. So Far I'm approaching (slowly) Milton Keynes. Please help me get to Manchester https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/ http://www.cmft.nhs.uk/childrens-hospitals [My Story] Thank you for visiting my fund raising page. This March I’m walking 10,000 steps a day throughout the month to help beat cancer sooner. It has been 7 years since my Haircut 100 head shave so you've had plenty of time to recover. It's time to dig deep once again. In that 7 years huge steps have been made into fighting cancer. Now, more people survive cancer than don't. That is down to people like you donating when idiots like us do something stupid. Sometimes it seems like every day someone else is diagnosed. Yesterday was one of those days. We need to keep going until we beat cancer, so please help They have calculated that if I manage 10,000 steps every day of March I will have done the equivalent of walking from London to Manchester. For someone who spends most of their life either asleep or sat down, this is no small challenge. My Fitbit average is 3000 which means I will have to do more than treble my normal steps every single day for 31 days. Help me Walk All Over Cancer and fund life-saving research by sponsoring me. Donating through this page is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with Cancer Research UK. Don't forget that if you're a UK tax payer that you can Gift Aid your donation to add an extra 25% (I can't believe they didn't call it the March march)