Kal Walks to Work for Sport Relief

March 23rd, 2010 | By Kal

Let me go off topic for a few of your minutes and tell you about something I did recently.

This past Friday, I walked to work for charity – the only snag being the fact that my house is 24 miles from Central London where I work.  I set out at just before 6am in the morning as the sun rose above Harlow and walked through a mixture of lush countryside, forest and finally the streets of London to reach Westminster in almost exactly 8 hours.

Last Friday was Sport Relief Day in the UK – if you can call it that – a day on which our  sport stars and comedians raised money on television, showing their stunning feats of endurance.  Against Eddie Izzard’s 43 marathons in 51 days, walking 24 miles pales into insignificance, but none the less I joined in.

The reason I joined in was two fold.  First of all, Sport Relief – and it’s sister charity Comic Relief – fund projects in the UK and the world’s poorest countries.  Almost selfishly this means you can see how they help those in need on your doorstep as well as those living abroad.  Clearly I have been rather rubbish at explaining what they do, so if you do want to find out more, you can go here.

The second reason I joined in was because of the challenge.  I had a “I wonder if…” moment about walking to work and from that point I was pretty much locked in to doing it – it’s a trait that’s gotten me into quite a few scrapes, not least on Friday night and all of Saturday when my legs stopped working and started hurting!  It was totally worth it though.

Along the way, I took some pictures and recorded some footage, so I compiled it and made a video, and of course, it features our music!