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My target 31 mi

I’m taking on the Mayday Mile Challenge to support RNLI volunteers

This May, I’m completing a mile-a-day challenge to help RNLI crews save lives at sea.

During summertime, more people flock to beaches and coastal towns to make the most of everything they have to offer – from glorious sunshine to adventurous watersports. And as temperatures rise, so do calls from people in trouble in the water.

By answering this Mayday call and giving a gift today, you can make a real, lifesaving difference. Your kindness will help give volunteers everything they need to launch to the rescue, and make sure they’re ready to face their busiest season.

Will you sponsor my RNLI Mayday Mile Challenge and support the courageous crews?

Please help raise funds for the RNLI

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£152 + £23.35 GiftAid

My Goal

£125

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My Updates

WALK THIRTY-ONE

Monday 9th Jun

Walk Thirty

Monday 9th Jun

Walk Twenty-nine

Monday 9th Jun

Walk Twenty-eight

Monday 9th Jun

Walk Twenty-seven

Wednesday 28th May
Back to work after the long weekend, out for a respectful couple of pints to celebrate a mate's birthday, home, hoody on, out for my mile! +3.71 miles walked for the love!

Walk Twenty-six

Wednesday 28th May
Haha! I love the Bedlington Station ones! Had a wonderful Bank Holiday Monday! Bowling, lunch, Nanna and PopPop's, and the Park with the Sister and Neiflings, then off for my mile with the Sis and her two idiot (though, adorable) dogs! The route is her's to choose until the robot voice yells 'one mile in twenty-ish odd minutes...'! Lols! +2.54 miles walked for the love!

Launch a Memory...

Wednesday 28th May

Walk Twenty-five

Wednesday 28th May
My first Neifling's Birthday... The deeply beautiful garden where Eliza is resting is just off the A1 in Northumberland... This year we met to tend her garden, talk, and go for coffee together... I got the bus and did my walk from the bus stop, back down the A1 and ended it at her marker... 0.16 miles into this walk, I met my goal of walking 31 miles, one for each of the days in May. Eliza's name is memorialised in the decal on the side of the RNLB Shannon Class, Lifeboat 'Agnes A P Barr', based at Invergordon Lifeboat Station... +1.08 miles walked for the love!

Walk Twenty-four

Wednesday 28th May
Track puts me in mind of a Peanuts character! So, decided to treat myself to a takeaway... Tracked my walk to the door, decided on my order, went in, placed it with the kind human, offered my phone to boop for payment. Cash. Only. #sadface! 0.16 miles to go! I'm glad that I'll reach my goal tomorrow. It's going to be a special walk.

Walk Twenty-three

Wednesday 28th May
Finding ways around the road works! 1.36 miles to go... Right, def need to think about what to do when/if I reach my goal!

Walk Twenty-two

Wednesday 28th May
Dad came over and helped me to mow and rake the lawns, wish I'd been wearing my watch for that! Lols! Really happy with how they turned out and shared a beer with him sitting on the end of my deck... Then after he headed home, did my mile... Nee idea what's going on with the track at the ASDA Garage there, but from the look of the route, it looks like the road works were in full flow! 2.53 miles to go!

Walk Twenty-one

Wednesday 28th May
PAY DAY YAY! Second experience of a delightful rain-fall shower in the kitchen due to an exploding toilet... NOT YAY! Also, 4.06 miles to go! Lols!

Walk Twenty

Sunday 25th May
Gym Night! I, may have been a little tired last night and there's a chance I forgot to stop the tracker when I got in... I swear to God above that this walk didn't take me 1h 41 minutes! 5.46 miles to go!

Walk Nineteen

Sunday 25th May
I think a Cadbury Picnic Bar could be considered a health food/salad! 7.07 miles to go!

Walk Eighteen - The Lost Track

Sunday 25th May
I mean! C'mon!

Walk Eighteen

Sunday 25th May
This, is my official Day 18 post... Had a properly brilliant day at Plessey Woods with the Sister and Neiflings! The journey home was an adventure, and when the second bus was both early AND didn't wait, the decision was made for us to walk back to Bedlington Station... Took the opportunity to track it as my Mayday Mile... The app behaved oddly and that track, vanished. Victoria offered that whilst dinner was cooking, she and the dogs would accompany me on an extra mile for me to post here... The previous track then showed up. Because, of course, it did... That, will be my next post, but not my next 'official' mile! Lols!

Walk Seventeen

Sunday 25th May
Left it too long to post this post, nothing of note to add except... 8.5 miles to go!

Walk Sixteen

Saturday 17th May
SciFi Night! Had a lush evening with Dad watching Andor S2, then headed out for my walk... 9.67 miles to go! Well, would you look at that! The first is a single digit! I mean the other two mean pretty much two-thirds, so it rounds to ten, but still... Canny! The night was still and calm and temperate... Noticed the elevations tonight, like, in my brain, not my body... Oh and also... Lunchtime today marked the halfway point temporally, and I’m going to go ahead and say I’m at the two-thirds point distancely (yes, I’m inventing words now), so I guess it’s time to start thinking about what to do if I reach my goal early…

Walk Fifteen

Saturday 17th May
So, you know when it's a Gym Night? I start the tracker when I leave the house, pause it at the door, do my session then start the tracker again at the door and walk back to the house via the ASDA Garage to get a Picnic bar... Thing is, I do a mile on the treadmill each time... The app can't track that as I'm not covering physical distance and I don't own a wearable... Now, technically this isn't an 'extra mile' I do this every session so I wouldn't log it here, it just feels some kinda way is all... 10.85 miles to go!

Walk Fourteen

Friday 16th May
Really leaning into the routine of it all... This route is lush! Gentle elevation changes, downhill in the final section... Nice! 12.37 miles to go!

Walk Thirteen

Friday 16th May
Gym Night! And, it would appear, a walk to the ASDA Garage... A Cadbury Picnic bar is a healthfood, right? I mean it has raisins, RAISINS!!! 13.83 miles to go! Definately passed the halfway point distance wise!

Walk Twelve

Monday 12th May
Expecting the caffeine crash any moment now, so typing quickly! Lols! 15.23 miles to go! Can we call this 'halfway', distance-wise? Or not quite, yet?!

Walk Eleven

Monday 12th May
After a brill day with the Sister, Brother in Law, and Neiflings... Realised it was getting late after dinner so decided to do my walk in Bedlington! My Sister came with me! Properly lovely! 16.93 miles to go!

Walk Ten

Sunday 11th May
Almost up-to-date with the updates! Ten days in, 12.7 miles walked, 18.3 miles to go! Launching the fundraising of it all today!

Walk Nine

Saturday 10th May
Very nearly forgot to go for my walk! Played online Mario Kart, built some socials posts for work, drank a couple of Guinesses, ate fish and chips, became blissfully couch based... WALK!!! Headed out at 22:00, perfect weather, felt great tbf! 18.8 miles to go! Look at that, I've walked over 10 extra miles in 9 days... ☺️

Walk Eight

Saturday 10th May
Gym Night! It's mean that the walk from the gym is uphill! Lols! Heard back from RNLI. Apparently, even though I'm tracking with one of the two recommended apps, automatic syncing of activity requires a wearable. yay. Resolve to keep going and to sit down on Saturday and manually log my activity, and then on Sunday launch the fundraising of it all... Wonder if folk will notice the first ten entries were all posted on the same weekend! Lols! 20.08 miles to go!

Walk Seven

Saturday 10th May
Need to remember to restart the tracker, before, crossing the road! Lols! 22.08 miles to go!

Walk Six

Saturday 10th May
Gym Night! It's about half a mile there, I add a little extra on the way back just to make sure... 23.25 miles to go!

Walk Five

Saturday 10th May
Definitely settling into a routine/route... Still not seeing updates on my page, I'm starting and closing an activity in the app, the information is logging in the FitBit app... Grumble! 24.55 miles to go!

Walk Four

Saturday 10th May
Starting to find a route that I like... Activity still not syncing from the FitBit app... Glad to have a few miles under my belt, want to get the logging issues sorted before launching fundraising though... 25.71 miles to go!

Walk Three

Saturday 10th May
Needed to go to the ASDA Garage, so added a walk around the estate... 26.89 miles to go!

Walk Two

Saturday 10th May
Got off the bus a couple of stops early... Haven't settled into a routine or a route yet... 28.25 miles to go! Noticed that my activity hadn't been logged from the previous day...

Walk One

Saturday 10th May
Very much started as I hope to go on... I walk around 3 miles per day, so I wanted to approach this as an 'extra mile'... 29.46 miles to go!

Thank you to my Sponsors

£21.84

Elaine Scrivens

Great Cause Andy!

£19.74

Bolam

£15

Goldie Tripney

So proud of you Andrew. xx

£12

Jackson And Jessie

£11.33

Chris Sheffer

Great cause! Keep it up!!

£11.33

Andrew Mitchell

Keep on chalking up them miles

£11.33

Matty

You have got this Andy! keep walking! You have got this!💪🏽 For an extraordinary cause of course🙌🏼

£11.33

Sam

Keep up the good work. So proud of you 😃

£11.33

Gweneth Irvine

Well done Son

£10

Laura

Fab work so far 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

£10

Joan Shewry

£6.34

Kate Sheffer

Go you!! Amazing!