It’s the ultimate charity challenge to make the journey from John O’Groats to Land’s End without normal transport. Whether on foot, bike, horseback or even in a wheelchair, hundreds of people complete the 874-mile expedition across the length of Britain every year. But what inspires them to take on the challenge – and attempt to beat records in the process? <\/p>\n
“Cycling uphill for three and a half miles from Penzance to Land’s End was bad. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”<\/p>\n
Any cyclist would probably struggle with the hills in Cornwall but for 83-year-old Peggy Keenor-Crome the inclines were the challenging finale to her bike ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End, known as the JOGLE.<\/p>\n
Peggy hopes to have set a new record for the oldest person to complete the challenge by bike after finishing in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n
The octogenarian, from Westward Ho! in Devon, arrived at Land’s End in the same week as 21-year-old Ella Fryer from Totnes, who also believes she has set a new record – as the youngest female to complete the route on foot.<\/p>\n
While both are hoping to have broken records, they also have personal reasons for taking on the challenge.<\/p>\n
For Ella the challenge was inspired by her struggle with mental health. <\/p>\n
“I struggled a lot with my own mental health, especially when I was younger,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I had really severe panic attacks, I could not go to school and could barely leave the house.<\/p>\n
“When I got to that signpost at Land’s End I just held on to it for a minute and looked out at the sea to try and let it sink in that I actually got to Cornwall.<\/p>\n
“I did the challenge for two mental health charities – Mind UK and the Running charity,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s the ultimate charity challenge to make the journey from John O’Groats to Land’s End without normal transport.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673115","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=673115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}