My Mile for Muscles

On the 25th August I started my challenge, a mile for muscles.

This was my chance to push and challenge myself and an opportunity to raise awareness and vital funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and try to help fund world class research to find treatment and cures for muscular dystrophy.

I chose the location for my walk quite easily and family and friends may not even realise why I had been quite specific. I was to start my walk from Stoke Mandeville Stadium; The Guttmann centre.

Ludwig Guttmann was a German born British neurologist who believed that sport was a major method of therapy for injured military personnel helping them build up physical strength and self-respect… This is something I truly believe in and also in this day and age spectating sports too. To be included and feel that you’re part of something can be imperative, able bodied or not.

Mile for Muscles

To many, walking a mile may not seem to much, but for me it was a challenge that I had set my heart on...

Here is a link to the Bucks Herald newspaper article.

Physically Pushed to the Limit

Here is a link to the local news websites reporting on my "Mile for Muscles" achievement.

Thank you for all of the support before, during and after the event.  It means a great deal to me to have such a wonderful supportive family and some amazing friends.

Bucks Herald - Link

Mix 96 - Link

Move a Mile for Muscles

1 Mile… 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or about 1,609 metres, doesn’t sound like much does it?

This distance is my challenge, something I’ll need to overcome to raise awareness and vital funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.

It really shouldn’t be a problem should it? It’s not far at all, fairly easy for most people. But I’m not most people; I have Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. I’m lucky enough to have this lesser strain of the condition and therefore I’m able to help support this charity by doing this walk.

On The Right Track

Twelve months ago, pretty much to the day, I started to write.

Someone had given me the opportunity to write a blog for a football fanzine, to capture ‘a day in the life' of me getting myself to a football match. To my surprise the story went viral but the greater surprise comes from the events that have followed.


I've since appeared in my football clubs match day programme, Charity magazine & website, made a presentation to everyone of my work colleagues, telling them about Muscular Dystrophy and how devastating the condition is. I have written a guest blog on ‘Harrisons fund' website (a Duchenne charity), I‘ve been asked to appear in a filmed Ad campaign later this year by a national newspaper, and so much more...

A Very Special Sunday

Supporter Martin Hywood and his wife Michelle volunteered at last Sunday's Virgin London Marathon to help us cheer on our 103 Team Orange runners, including Martin's brother, Andrew.

06:20, Sunday, 21 April 2013...

Never have I hated my alarm clock so much as right now! Then as I slowly wake up and get my head together I realise why I'm being 'beeped' at... The 2013 London Marathon!

We're up, ready and set off to the station for the train. We're very lucky with our train journey, travelling through the Chilterns at this time of the morning is something else; the mist rolls off the hills to reveal a stunning patchwork quilt of forest and field. This takes away some of the anxiety I am feeling right now.

Me and MD

You may wonder why I go on about Muscular Dystrophy. It’s because I’m lucky to have a lesser strain (Limb Girdle) and I have the ability to shout for those that can’t; and if I can make a difference then so can you.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is the biggest genetic killer of infants and toddlers. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is the biggest genetic killer amongst boys and young men (only 1% of those affected are girls)