Insert unsurprised face here…
You may have noticed that we’ve been rather… quiet for a week or two. It turns out that (2x PDA) + LEJOG + Blog + Fundraising = HUGE demands, for both of us. Such that the everyday demands of getting up, walking, camping, eating, washing became too much. And that’s recipe for misery.
I’m sorry that not all tales of PDA-ers taking on huge challenges always end in triumph. We’re often extremely restricted by our Neurodiversity in ways that we don’t always predict (maybe I should have seen this one coming…)
We’re not giving up (although I wouldn’t choose to frame it in that way - acknowledging limitations is good self care) but we are reframing this in a way we can manage. We’re still 100% committed to raising £1,200 for the PDA Society. We’re still going to do a lot of walking and camping and splashing in puddles and taking lunch breaks and posing for photos…
But instead of doing our 1,200 miles in one go, with one big aim, we’re going to do it over several shorter trails. We’ve done 100 or so thus far. I need a graphic for this! A distance thermometer or something.
Our next challenge will be Hadrian’s Wall Path - extended to go from Bowness on Solway to Tynemouth I think it’s about 90 miles. We’ll be covering no more than 12 miles a day, to keep in Roo’s comfort zone and we’ll be starting after Easter.
Please, please keep sponsoring, supporting and helping us, even if we’re not quite doing what we expected. PDA life means often changing plans, and making the best of those changes. Here we go again, again!
If you haven’t sponsored us yet, please do!