Mum Amy dares to dream of 40 ways to spice up life
ADAREDEVIL mum-of-three has set herself the goal of completing 40 eclectic and spontaneous challenges before she turns 40.
Personal trainer Amy Windsor, from Cheadle Hulme, turns 40 next September.
So far she has run the Manchester Marathon, completed a five-day mountaineering/abseiling trek in Sardinia, where she slept wild and spent one night in a cliff cave 100 metres above the sea, had an aerobatic flight, eaten the spiciest crisp in the world, and even competed in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships!
She has just come home from a 15-day trek to Everest Base Camp.
Amy, 39, said: “I’ve got into fitness in the past five years, making up for lost time. I’ve done the challenges through spontaneity and some last-minute decisions.
“I’m lucky to have a very supportive husband, Matt, who lets me go off for a couple of weeks. I have good support from my family.”
Amy and Matt have three boys - Aiden, 12, Leo, nine, and Charlie, six.
Amy added: “The Everest trek was in some ways easier than I expected, and in some ways hard.
“The hardest thing was the relentlessness of it, day after day. You can’t have a wash - we were the smelliest humans on earth. You have to have the mental agility to push yourself.
“You can’t practice for the exhaustion and sickness of the altitude.”
Amy says her ‘wackier’ challenges have come from husband Matt, who ordered her the world’s hottest crisp - resulting in her needing to dip her tongue in yoghurt and pick it up with a glove.
Amy added: “I’ve come to running late in life and I thought if I’m going to do a running challenge, I should make it as big as possible. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done - just the atmosphere in Manchester, people encouraging and supporting each other.
“My sister did it with me and one of my challenges was to do one with her.”
In future, Amy says she would like to do a triathlon, and ideally, break a world record that no-one has done before on her birthday.