We hit the road to meet Aaron Knight from Yeovil, to find out about the lads’ exploits in the 2023 Diabetes UK 1 Million Step Challenge.
What was your inspiration for this challenge?
Our inspiration firstly was due to the Diabetes 1 Million Steps challenge, but also as one of our members young sons is diabetic and always attends our session with his dad to help out as a ball boy.
We’ve also had members reverse diabetes not so long ago and felt this charity deserved our full attention to raise as much as we could during the Million Steps Challenge.
What went into organising the event?
I had been thinking about a walking event as a club for a while so this gave me the perfect reason to do it. Organising it was at times stressful and keeping on top of all of our efforts, the car boots, coffee morning and then contacting over 100 businesses asking for raffle prizes along with organising meeting points for our walk, working full time and training for Brighton Marathon at the time certainly wasn’t easy!
But the reward has been worth it. Every second, minute and hour I spent on this will always be worth it!
