Lesley Walport – The Long Walk 2020, Faro de Sardina del Norte – Faro de Maspalomas, over the highest mountain… #WeCrossMountains

Lesley Walport made Gran Canaria her home, a veteran of the tourism industry she has always made herself available to help support The Long Walk, and has done so for several years, since the earliest walks.  She is a lioness, though might try to tell you that her “dead leg” might keep her back, don’t believe it for one second, all we have ever seen from this Mighty Girl is grit, determination, a focus on overcoming every challenge and indeed the ability to not just do anything she sets her mind to, but to tenaciously master it through practice and a refusal to give up.  When Lesley decides to cross a mountain, that mountain gets crossed.

We are very proud to welcome Lesley for her third epic walk, and we are looking forward to seeing how her bonny scottish humour and glib wit fare on this most epic of challenges.  She sometimes says “I can´t” but usually means “Nobody would believe it, but I totally can do this”

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Hi All – BEGGING ALERT!

I`m participating in the Long Walk as I believe everyone should be more aware of Cancer, and of the ways we all can help and support those who have been diagnosed.

I have lost many close friends and relatives to it.

This three day walk across the island I love, over it’s highest peak, is something, very small, that I can do to help. It perfectly symbolises the long struggle that sufferers have endured. It is a walk in the park by no means – I know first hand that this walk will be, long and arduous as well as both physically and mentally challenging.

I suppose I started training for this a number of years ago when I volunteered to be a support vehicle driver, then started joining the rep’s walk on the last day of the event. Every year around one hundred tour reps, many of them colleagues and ex colleagues have joined the last 20km or so to the finish of this epic journey. This year, of course, will be a little different.

I’ve been training 3 times a week, and doing about 12 km a day, joining in the training walks with veteran Long Walkers, Sanna Nevalainen, Eddie Timon and Paul Gilliam, and plan once more to attempt the entire 3 day walk, over a mountain, travelling 80km on foot (you should probably donate, just for me putting up with those grumpy buggers!)

I’m walking for many but in particular Sarah Jane James, Gail Needham, Amanda McInnes, my uncle and aunt Lila and Ivor Saville and my father Abel Walport

Every penny or cent we raise will be spent to support The Long Walk fund, which is donated every year to local Breast Cancer Association ACCMyG.org who support Women and Families faced with probably the greatest challenge anyone can face, after a cáncer diagnoses, and to our local Mogán Neighbours Food Project (Nabhjelpen)

I hope you will support my effort, it’s going to be pretty painful, but I plan to succeed in crossing the island to show that no matter how big the challenge, the only way to get over it or through it is to put one foot in front of another and start moving.

Thank you”

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Some of the wonderful people who support The Long Walk:

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Linda Lewis

€5.00 September 27, 2020

Your doing amazing

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Daisy Sidwell

€15.00 September 25, 2020

Go on gurrllllllll ❤️

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Natasha Rust

€5.00 September 25, 2020

Good luck Lesley!! Xx

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Sanna Nevalainen

€10.00 September 23, 2020

Love you chica! So proud of doing this with you again! you're going to rock this rock we call home !

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Fanny Willame

€10.00 September 15, 2020

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

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Karen Boyle

€5.00 September 14, 2020

Go for it girl.

The Long Walk Past Sponsors and Donors:

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Yuki OSAWA

€10.00 October 2, 2020

Congratulations Mari!!!!

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Jane Skelton

€1,000.00 September 30, 2020

Dear Donkey, just a little support from a old Cambs friend, keep up the good work Ed,
Love from Jane

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Sari Helenius

€20.00 September 28, 2020

Fantástica! Una labor increíble 💖

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Stephanie Tuckett

€10.00 September 28, 2020

Well done! A great cause!

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Bijal Unalkat

€5.00 September 27, 2020

Amazing! Bijal 🙂

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Lucy Hayman-Hart

€5.00 September 27, 2020

Well done guys! Amazing! Xx

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Sabrina Eldridge

€10.00 September 27, 2020

Hope the walk is going well, and no one has fallen over! Big loves to all the Long Walkers and support team! Wishing you all a speedy… Read more

Hope the walk is going well, and no one has fallen over! Big loves to all the Long Walkers and support team! Wishing you all a speedy recovery xxxx

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Cornelia Christiansen

€10.00 September 27, 2020

👏💪 for an amazing cause Mari!!

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Karen Thomas

€10.00 September 27, 2020

This is amazing guys!! You’re smashing it! Last push today!!!

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Rebecca Jackson

€10.00 September 27, 2020

Good luck on your last day, you’ll smash it xx

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Linda Lewis

€5.00 September 27, 2020

Your doing amazing

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Anonymous

€10.00 September 26, 2020

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