Annie-Mae Haines, who has been going to the walks alone since the start, said she joined to get out more as she works from home doing online calls as a health mentor.<\/p>\n
“You need something to push you to get out after and I also think, at this age, it’s quite hard to meet new people, so it’s a perfect way to meet new friends,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes, leading up to it, I think I don’t want to go out tonight and then I get out there and really enjoy it and I feel so much better for going.”<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old from North Hykeham, Lincoln, said people do not always have the money to pay for some hobbies. <\/p>\n
“You put your coat on, go for a walk and it’s great,” she said. <\/p>\n
Ms Haines said walking in a group makes her feel safer.<\/p>\n
“I’d love to go for a walk after my work but I wouldn’t dare go on my own,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’d be far too scared in the dark whereas, when you are in a group, you feel safe and you don’t have to think about it. That worry doesn’t even cross your mind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annie-Mae Haines, who has been going to the walks alone since the start, said she joined to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-289436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}