Best Walking Challenges for 2024
Step into the New Year with a walking challenge or two! Walking more can lead to a healthier and happier population, a reduced burden on the NHS, as well as contributing to huge cost savings. Walking can help prevent and manage over 20 chronic conditions and diseases including heart disease, some cancers and depression. Whilst also saving the NHS to £1 billion per year from dealing with physical inactivity. Just 20 minutes of exercise per day cuts the risk of developing depression by 31%.
So give these challenges a try today and walk more in 2024.
Walk 2024km
Can you walk 2024km in a year or less? That's around an hour or 5.5km (3.4 miles) a day. Participants of the Walk 2023km challenge have walked nearly 3 million kilometres and have saved 348,836kg of carbon emissions. 70% of participants polled agreed that the year-long challenge encouraged them to walk more. Join us and give it a go!
Capital Ring Challenge
Walk all 15 sections of Transport for London’s Capital Ring with us. Discover outer London as you go, earn badges along the way and walk over 78 miles in the process. Why not give it a whirl? Not sure where to start? Here’s some inspo.
Nature Notes (iOS Only)
Why not challenge yourself to take note of nature each and every day? Using our free Nature Notes feature (iOS only), you can capture the good things you see in nature everyday. Writing down what you have noticed in nature everyday for a week can provide a month’s wellbeing benefits.
Personal Walking Challenges
Need a tailored walking challenge? What are you waiting for? Choose from a step, distance or time-based challenge, choose your target, set a start date and get walking! Upgrade to create a personal walking challenge today.
GM Ringway Challenge
200 miles, across 10 boroughs and endless greenspaces, waterways and countryside views. Walk the entire GM Ringway on the free GM Ringway Challenge. Need shorter or more accessible routes? Select your favourite 5 of all 10 GM Ringway Short walks to complete the GM Ringway Shorts Challenge.
Are you ready to try one of our walking challenges? What are you waiting for, give them a go!