500k in 50 Days Step Challenge

500k in 50 Days Step Challenge

This year I will be taking part in a step challenge to raise money for the British Heart Foundation charity. I will be doing half a million steps in 50 days!

Challenge Completed!

Total Steps: 780258

CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT ME AND THE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION BY DONATING NOW!

I reached 500k steps on 26th August 2020! I will continue to do 12k steps a day minimum until the end of the 50th day.

Why walking

I knew that this year I wanted to do at least one thing to support a charity important to me. What most people around me do when they want to raise money for charities is to take part in a race (usually running) and I thought that would be a great idea! Unfortunately, as you know, we’ve been a bit stuck in the house recently due to certain global pandemics.

During this time of being almost constantly house bound, my fitness has struggled and my waistline expanded. My normal 30 minute walk to work replaced with a walk down the stairs as I am now working from home. Now that things are starting to ease in my area, I knew it was to time to get back into fitness.

Something I’ve always enjoyed is walking. It makes sense for me to mix this with getting fit, and to support an excellent charity whilst I do so. A challenge for me, and to raise some serious money for charity.

You can support the British Heart Foundation by clicking here to sponsor my 500k in 50 Days challenge!

Why The British Heart Foundation

There are many, many worthwhile charities in the UK, both on a local and national level. There are charities for all sorts of things and all of them are great causes worthy of support. Truly, I could pick many other charities and still be happy with my choice.

So why the BHF? Because of what they do, and who I have lost due to heart disease and other heart related issues. I do not want to go into a lot of detail on the internet about my family, but what I will say is that I strongly believe that BHF can make real progress so that other families might not lose their family members so early due to heart related problems, and those living with medical heart issues have a better standard of livings and better prospects.

There are many issues that can effect the heart. The BHF fund over £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. Heart diseases. Stroke. Vascular dementia. Diabetes. They’re all connected, and they’re all under their microscope.

You can find out more about the BHF and what they do by clicking here.

In a perfect world, the government would fund the kind of research that the BHF and other similar charities do. Until we get to that perfect world, I will walk.

Please click here to sponsor me on this challenge and to support the British Heart Foundation!

Why 500k in 50 days

At first, I wanted to do half a million steps in two months. This would mean that if I wasn’t able to get steps in for a few days over that period it wouldn’t stop me from achieving the overall goal of 500k steps.

This was too easy. There was no challenge there.

If I can so easily complete the challenge then it is no longer a challenge but more of a tick box exercise. I wanted to not only challenge myself but be worthy of your donations to support this cause.

I reduced the amount of days I would have to complete the challenge to 50. This would require around 12k steps a day in order to reach half a million and will be a real challenge for me.

As you’ll see below from my step numbers so far, I’ll likely finish this challenge before even the 50 day mark. If I do, I will still aim to get 12,000 steps every day up until the end of the 50th day.

Supporting me is easy. Just click on this link and you’ll be taken to my fundraising page. Your donation will go towards life-saving research.

Progress

I’ll be keeping a record of my progress here, and also on my BHF fundraising page. It’s important that not only I make the half a million steps in a timely manner, but also can show I’ve done them. Luckily, I have a Fitbit device which will record my steps!

I’ll be using tables and screenshots from my Fitbit app to show my progress, and I’ll update this page weekly with the latest information.

STEPS
Sunday 26th July12584
Week commencing 27th July117926
Week commencing 3rd August120286
Week commencing 10th August108856
Week commencing 17th August108624
Week commencing 24th August100617
Week commencing 31st August101212
Week commencing 7th September95388
Monday 14th September14839
500k in 50 Days Step Challenge
Michael is Amazing Step Challenge
Please note the weekly total seen in the above picture includes only part of Sunday 2nd August, unlike the chart before it which includes the whole of Sunday.

Thank you for reading my progress here. If you haven’t already, please click here to donate and support me and the British Heart Foundation.