Darren Lewis

My Story

Welcome to my Diabetes UK Wellness Walk fundraising page!

I’m walking for Diabetes UK this September to support the 5.8 million people in the UK who live with diabetes, day in day out. And you can too, just by making a donation.

Did you know someone is diagnosed with diabetes every two minutes?

Diabetes UK are on a mission to create a world where diabetes can do no harm by funding vital research into life-changing treatments and providing support to help people to live well with diabetes. But they need our help. No matter how much you can give, it will make a difference.

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Please help me reach my goal

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£619 + £91.17 GiftAid

My Goal

£500

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My Updates

Six miles down.....

Tuesday 8th Sep

Focused yesterday on hitting the 6 mile mark, 25 very dull laps of the track and had forgotten my headphones so had to have the phone playing loud instead.

Can I make 7 on Thursday?

Sore thumbs and raised target

Wednesday 2nd Sep

Having started using an athletics track for my training, there are three outcomes I have discovered....

1. Thumb on my left hand is sore...change of gloves have helped but I expect more tenderness as I increase the laps

2. Can't wait for some views, going round an athletics track is pretty boring so I am looking forward to the ten bridges in London on 27th.

3. My Garmin watch, which is meant to record pushes, isn't working properly. Yesterday I completed 7,200m which has been recorded as less that half a kilometre! Google search I think to see if there is an issue.

Finally, thanks to those who have donated....rushed past the £250 target so have decided to raise to £500.

Thank you to my Sponsors

£100

Grant Coren

Good luck, wishing you every success and knowing you will smash it :-)

£80.60

Stephen Lambert

Best wishes for the event

£45.10

Caroline Davis-west

Go Darren!

£45.10

Angela Thomas

Good Luck

£45.10

Sandra Kilner

£40

Stephen Podesta

£28.44

A Fellow Diabetic!

Good luck!

£28.44

Richard L

£28.44

John Gibbon

Good luck you got this

£28.44

Carolyn Jarvis

Good luck Darren!

£28.44

Joe Healy

£23.45

Anonymous

Good luck

£20

Alex

Good luck with the event, know you’ll smash it!

£20

Olivia Melling

You’ll be great, and it’s for a wheelie good cause 💖

£20

Tanzeel R

£15

Charlotte

And just like that, you’ve hit your target with four weeks to go!! 🎯👨‍🦽‍➡️✨ Keep up the great efforts, Darren. You’re an inspiration to us all xx

£12.25

Mia

Well done Darren!

£10

Grace Lewis

Well done Dad!!