They’re questions many of us ask ourselves at various points in our lives, and particularly when we’re taking on a new challenge. Thankfully one of the things we know about walking is very good at is making ourselves more accepting of ourselves.
But here at Country Walking we’re horrified by the thought that anyone at the fringes of or perhaps outside #walk1000miles, or the world of walking generally, might feel in some way unqualified for or unequal to the challenge. So we did a survey, which 500 challengers anonymously and therefore presumably honestly filled in, to find out a bit more about us as a group, and to see how it matches up to the imagined ‘normal’ that might be skulking unhelpfully in the back of some people’s minds.