About
Outside: Our Way is an online space for disabled and chronically ill people to shape their own narratives of the outdoor experience. Outdoor disability campaigner Ani Patas will be meeting individuals from across the outdoor sector and disability landscape to share their stories in a series of interviews.
You can find out more here.
For more content follow @Outside_Our_Way on Instagram. Feel free to send me a message if you have a story you’d like to share.
Outside: Our Way is kindly hosted by All The Elements C.I.C
The Practicalities - Dawn’s Way
So my approach is to mix it up by planning a few options for routes and then choosing the one I’m going to do based on how I’m feeling beforehand. In a similar way that I mentioned in my last post that the level and type of training is based on symptoms and what I’m able to do on a given training day, I also am adaptable on where I go.
Training plan - Dawn’s Way
The training for the event can be a bigger challenge when you have a disability than the event itself because it requires a certain level of consistency. I’ve seen plans where they are a week by week run up to the event with the full itinerary of what, when, how far, how long, pace etc. all mapped out.
I need to be more flexible than this. Having a fluctuating condition where I have no idea which weeks will be good or bad means that level of planning only becomes stressful and disappointing.
Outside Dawn’s Way
I’m Dawn and I will be writing a short series of blogs documenting my journey as a disabled adventurer aiming to complete an outdoor challenge; walking across Wales within 24 hours.
Adventure and challenge isn’t something I’m new to, but, it is the first one since being diagnosed with a vestibular condition.