David Walker

I used to do a bit of running, few half marathons but nothing serious. In May 2013 my wife Jacqui was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of days after completing the Chester half marathon. It only seemed right i should enter my first full marathon, and in October 2013 completed the Chester marathon raising nearly six thousand pounds for Breast Cancer awareness.
Sadly, my wife passed away in September 2014.

After a few years of not wanting to do much and being advised to stop running due to early signs of arthritis, I started walking.
In June 2019 I was one of a group of six that took on the National three peaks challenge and raised five thousand pounds for Nightingale House.
I then signed up to take on Kilimanjaro for the hospice. Unfortunately, this got delayed due to covid, but in September 2022, I completed it and raised twelve thousand pounds for them. As a group of 23 we raised over one hundred and twenty thousand pounds, £120k

On Monday 25th November, I returned home having successfully completed the Everest Base Camp challenge, and at the time of writing this, as a group we were just a few thousand short of our fifty-thousand-pound target, £50k.

Our four charities for this challenge were

Nightingale House Hospice
MND
British Heart Foundation
Alzheimers Research.