Couple walking 6000 miles to raise funds for RNLI visit Wells lifeboat station
Antony and Sally Brown arrived at Wells RNLI station on an unusually warm sunny day on 15 February 2024, after walking from Hunstanton lifeboat station.
The couple are walking for 12 months around the UK coastline in their 60th year. They set off from their St. Austell home in Cornwall on 15 May 2023. They were inspired to push themselves further after completing a walk in 2015 of 312 miles around the Cornish Coast.
Antony has planned their routes, plotted their daily mileage and found places for them to stay in their campervan. This had been a couple of years in the planning stage and they wanted to complete it for Sally’s 60th birthday in May 2024.
The couple average 17 miles per day on their walk. Walking in Scotland in January was hard, with short days and cold weather. One beach was 14 miles long and they had to cross burns. Antony found a pallet and used that as a raft to help cross some of the stretches of water.
They have also been participating in over 30 park runs to date, on Saturday mornings, as if the walks were not pushing them enough. On the days they do a park run, they aim to walk between 12 to 14 miles.
They are staying in their campervan and have a network of friends and volunteer drivers to shuttle their campervan from each destination.
This week they have a friend Daz driving for them and he is known to the couple from their shared interest of participating in The London Tube Challenge. This involves riding the underground to all the stations on the network and walking or running between stations where necessary, in 24 hours.
Antony held the Guinness Book of World Record for the fastest time in 2007.
To date Antony and Sally have raised an amazing amount of £7100 for the RNLI. To donate, please follow their link www.linktr.ee/ukcoastwalk
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