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Welcome to Peakers Scotland Virtual Walk Challenge: Scotland!

During 2020, the year when the COVID pandemic affected so many lives and our ability to explore our world, we decided to embark on a virtual walk of Scotland with a difference.  We initially walked our first version with our Peakers Scotland Members before launching version 2 for our global Peakers to enjoy in January 2021.  This blog contains the contents of that challenge, just a bit of fun, 'travelling' and learning about Scotland from home using daily walk distances to propel us around our route.  The next post explains how we worked it.

Peakers Scotland is an official ambassador group for My Peak Challenge (MPC), a global fitness and lifestyle programme founded by actor, Sam Heughan, which began in 2015.  There are 140 ambassadors groups at present representing Peakers in many countries and their activities across the world.  Our aim is to be the best possible version of ourselves, in terms of fitness, nutrition and activities.  Being part of MPC we enjoy the support of a global community whilst raising funds for the MPC chosen charities; for 2021 these are Global Foodbanking Network, Feeding America, Blood Cancer UK and Marie Curie UK.


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