NO FRAUD THIS TIME
At the end of this post I will be asking you to sponsor me. Again. It's for a good cause - honest. I've written about the work of Advocard in previous posts, so I won't bore anyone with that again, but they provide an increasingly essential service in Edinburgh.
Despite which, in the previous three years when I've done the Kiltwalk, I've always felt a bit guilty about asking for money for what I was doing. We see enough people asking for support for doing things that are effectively their hobbies, and I have always done a fair bit of walking. Maybe not the fourteen and half miles required here, but if walking to my destination seems a feasible option then that's the one I'd go for. Walking that bit further required a bit of effort on my part, but I enjoyed it, both for the challenge it provided and the actual walking itself. So my guilt was really because I felt a bit of a fraud. The 'challenge' wasn't really great enough to stop me feeling a bit of a fraud.
Yesterday I did the full Kiltwalk course for the first time in 2022. And I I won't feel like a fraud this year. It will probably be the last time I attempt this distance, because my recent health problems have turned it into a genuine challenge, and I admit I struggled. Had to sit down a couple of times. Had to stop and do some stretches. Had to convince myself to keep going whenever I passed a tempting bus stop. Even that first glimpse of the endpoint, BT Murrayfield, didn't gee me on like it once did. I got there, but the fun of past years is just a memory.
All of which is a long winded way of saying that if you ever thought about sponsoring my efforts before then this could be the last chance. I realise it's hardly ideal to be saying this at a time when UKGov is ensuring that so many people are wondering if they can have food or heat this winter, but a lot of those people are the ones Advocard provides advocacy help for. So anything you could spare would be much appreciated and going somewhere it will be of use to others.
