One Million in Fifty

It started, as most things do, as a conversation. It became an idea, the idea a challenge – to walk 1 million steps in 50 days, around 500 miles give or take, for charity.

However, if that wasn’t hard enough most of the walking will be undertaken at Mapperley Golf Club. A lovely, picturesque but hilly (very) golf club towards the north side of Nottingham.

But why a walking challenge around the same golf course? The golf course in question just happens to be the hardest walking course in Nottinghamshire and as such will push you that much further and require more of you, and hopefully help improve our golf handicap.

START: 

Day 1: August 1, 2020. And so it begins.  The ambition is to walk at least 20k every day. Today I managed 23,664. Thankfully, not all of my body is aching…just parts of it.

Over the course of the 50 days we collated a bunch of quotes from Jon Newham – Head Professional Mapperley Golf Club. Meant to be a bit of fun, supposedly… you can find them all below.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

Day 12

Day 13

Day 14

Day 15

Day 16

Day 17

Day 18

Day 19

Day 20

Day 21

Day 22

Day 23

Day 24

Day 25

Day 26

Day 27

Day 28

Day 29

Day 30

Day 31

Day 32

Day 33

Day 34

Day 35

Day 36

Day 37

Day 38

Day 39

Day 40

Day 41

Day 42

Day 43

Day 44

Day 45

Day 46

Day 47

Day 48

Day 49

Day 50

“Some days were better than others, and some days were just bad”

By day 5, I was comfortably ahead so I felt good

Walked – 132,129 steps

Rounds Played – 9.5

Miles Walked – 65.5

For a blow by blow account of the walk see https://fairwaytoride.org.uk/191-2/ or https://twitter.com/1m_50

What did make the walk somewhat invigorating, and contemplative was the beauty of the golf course when I played in the mornings:

Golf Today got involved too and did an article on the walk:

Day 50 – Challenge Completed

Final Update Steps Walked – 1,010,120

Miles Walked – 495

Steps / Mile – 2043

Rounds Played – 54

Holes Played – 963

Shots Taken (approx) – 4,700

Total raised:  1 million steps and 24hr Walk raised, in total, £4,708 with £2,354 of the total going to FareShare Midlands, providing 9,416 meals for men, women and children living in poverty.