11-02-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com

‘Walking out my grief one step at a time’: why I’m doing a 24-hour walk | Stuart Heritage

It’s an exercise I actually like – it rewards persistence over ability. What’s more, I can think about my late mum, who was also a walker, and all that she meant to meFor years throughout the 1960s, my mum walked the North Downs twice daily. In the morning, she’d traipse from her home in the village of Hastingleigh across to her egg-packing job, just over three miles away in Wye. Then, once her shift was done, she’d haul herself back up Occupation Road and begin the
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