Kirstys 50 walks to success.

I haven't done a blog in around a week and oh my what a week it has been. I have done eight mapped walks since my last blog and what a journey they have taken me on. When I reflect on them there are some funny occurrences along with some others that were surprising and some that required determination.  Many of the walks have occurred straight after I have finished a full days work as a Learning Support Advisor at East Riding college, obviously others have been done during the weekends.  One in which required determination was last week. I decided to walk through the town along the cliff tops to a local village and back through the town along the sea front. The weather was absolutely crazy that day. In the time that I had been out I had walked in gleaming sunshine and three snow storms. I made it though. What was particularly lovely was as I walked along the sea front I heard my name being called out. I realised it was the hi vis jacket which had been mentioned in the local papers,

As I begin writing this blog; I am in a much more optimistic place compared to the last time I published a blog. I woke up yesterday to a post Dr Ann Limb had shared on LinkedIn in which she had tagged me and others drawing attention to my fundraising, which was a very lovely moment. From that I did get others wishing me good luck and of course I became noticed. A lady which had been tagged in the post said to me in a comment ' we see you' which cheered me up greatly, then she donated which was really kind and wonderful of her.   I had a unexpected delivery of orange roses and a bottle of wine also delivered that day; from someone I work with. I thought about in those moments how very lucky I am with the kindness and support I have with some of those around me and I needed to get dressed, shake the covid misery off and start a new day.  Yesterday I received a good luck message from Shahida at the foundation because I was having a TEAMS meeting with Karen from the radio station

On the 30th March 2021 I decided to do a lateral covid test because I had a sore throat. Normally I would have ignored this but because my children had Covid, I thought better.  Unfortunately the test came back positive. I did feel very unwell and had a couple of days where getting out of bed was impossible. Luckily my husband did pretty much everything in the house.  Fundraising was not far from the forefront of my thoughts. I had already delayed the walks to the 6.3.21 because of the original ending date of isolation. However my ending date for isolation is the 10.4.21. I decided that I was just going to have to push on and start the walking. The walking had to take place in my back garden. The last two days have taken place in my garden but I have not walked the full two hours solely. My family have helped with the walking as we split the time between us.  The pain in my joints and muscles meant I wasn't fit enough to do it alone. I also have terrible fatigue, not helped by the