| Our brand ambassador, Justin Miles, has been 'staying at home' for over a week but despite his travel and work plans having been cancelled he's remaining surprisingly upbeat for a man who is constantly on the move.
"It's tough. It's really tough. Like many people, my business has been hit hard - in fact, totally destroyed - and if that's not hard enough to cope with right now my ability to get active outdoors has been stopped too, and that really could have a negative impact on my physical and mental health. So I decided to bring the world to life at home."
"A few days ago I was sat drinking coffee early in the morning and contemplating the fact that on that particular day I'd been planning to climb Mount Snowdon in Wales. Then I decided to do it anyway, but without actually travelling across the UK"
"I first did a little research; how high is the mountain? I then made a step in the garden out of a couple of building blocks, measured them, did a quick calculation and worked out that I would have to perform 3,617 step-ups on that box to replicate climbing the height of Mount Snowdon. I packed my KarrimorSF Sabre 30 - the perfect daypack for a day in the mountains - with the equipment, food and water that I would have carried with me and then spent the next couple of hours 'stepping up' to the height of the mountain."
'I made a short video about my challenge and I've been encouraging other people to set their own 'at home' #getoutside challenges to maintain positive physical and mental health. So far a guy has stepped up Pen-Y-Fan, a young family is stepping up Mount Snowdon over a the course of the weekend - and even 'camping out' in their living room - another lady has committed to walking up and down her stairs until she's equalled the number of steps on the Eiffel Tower, a guy is completing his first ever 10k run in his back yard and a few schools have been using the idea to encourage their home-learning pupils to stay active and to give a focal point for some learning activities." |
