Virtual Walk Update - Week 12

We've made some great progress this week by completing another 84 miles to reach the beautiful Scottish Highlands in our Virtual Walk Challenge. Check out our step count.

Steps

We've walked 201,544 steps this week, bringing our total step count to 1,966,936

Miles

We've completed a further 84.71 miles, bringing our grand total of miles to 816.57.

That means we've only got under 31 miles to go until we reach the famous John O'Groats signpost which is our finish line!

Location Map

Follow the route of our adventure by viewing our Google Maps location map. This week we passed through route marker number 47. Inverness to 52. Berriedale on the Scottish coast. Find out more about our locations.
You can even use google street view to virtually see all the locations we visit and see cool photographs of each place marker by clicking LAS Google Street View map.

Location Guide

In our location guide this week, we visit route markers 47. Inverness - Kessock Bridge to 52. Berriedale. passing through one of Europe fastest growing cities and home of 'Nessie' Inverness.  

Find out about Dunrobin Castle, designed by Sir Charles Barry, and the Sutherland Families collection of historical artifacts.

We have now reached the village of Berriedale, just North of the steep drop known as the Berriedale Braes (Scots Gaelic for hillside) . 

How Will We Celebrate The Finish?

We are starting to make plans for how we will celebrate the completion of our challenge. Everyone that has taken part will each receive a certificate of achievement plus we hope to make a celebratory video of all our efforts over the past few months.

We Need You!

We are putting a call out for all our wonderful participants to send in a video clip and photographs of yourself cheering as we approach the finish line of our challenge.

We also want to see videos of you doing silly walks, the moonwalk, or even a fun dance so we can include in our celebratory video. We plan to then share the video on our website and social media pages to show supporters our group achievement!

If you would like to be included, please get in touch with our Activity Team by emailing [email protected] 

Fundraising

Check out our fantastic fundraiser pages to support us to reach our goal! www.las.uk.net/Pages/Fundraisers/ 

We have now raised a fantastic £325 through our challenge so far, well done team!

We are aware that people still have sponsorship forms, so get in touch with our Activity Team [email protected] to submit your sponsorship.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone's fundraising efforts, we really do appreciate every penny donated to us and all donations go back into the service to improve facilities and provide exciting, new activities. 

This Week's Walks!

  • David completed 2miles at Meanwood Valley Trail with Mark
  • William, Chris and Mark completed 7.2miles
  • Kerry and her mum have been racking up the steps to complete 9 miles
  • Bartosz completed an impressive 12.7 miles with Jade

Well done everyone for submitting steps, not far to go now!