Days on the Dyke making new plans
For me, the planning of something exciting is the next best thing to doing something. Of course, over the last year or so many things have had to remain plans due to the restrictions that were and in some cases are still understandably out there.
Last week, however, I managed the best of both worlds and what a fantastic couple of days I had for it. I had been planning to see my race tent and Everest summiting friend Jeff for ages, but as he is based in Wales I couldn’t get to see him and we’d been planning that day for almost a year.
We finally managed to meet up for a couple of days walking along part of the beautiful Offa’s Dyke path, something I last walked in its entirety when I was 20, which made planning for that time so worthwhile.
While out together though we also started planning the next big challenge for me to continue my quest to inspire others – so much easier than over the phone.
Knocking loads of ideas around we eventually came up with a target and a strategy to get there which would be fun, challenging, fund-raising and, most importantly, would hopefully inspire positivity in others.
Jeff is certainly no newcomer to doing things to help others to achieve dreams, but more importantly he also helps people who are literally on the floor, as he says “by giving them a hand up not a hand out” using his Bigmoose not for profit organisation (www.bigmoose.co) based in Cardiff. Just being with the great man is enough to inspire me to keep climbing from the hole I was once in.
What is the plan you ask? Well that’s for another time but I hope, like me, you put your plans into action as soon as you can and then make some more, only bigger!
We wanted to come up with a fun challenge that would raise funds