A Burnham-On-Sea personal fitness instructor completed a 31-mile extreme fitness challenge on Monday (April 27th) to raise hundreds of pounds for an NHS charity.
Sonny Topham jogged and walked almost 350 laps of the Burnham Infants School Playground in 6 hours and 30 minutes to raise over £350 for the charity ‘NHS Charities Together’.
He said: “Thank you so much to all of you who have donated, it’s greatly appreciated!”
“I would also like to say thank you to everyone who came along to support me at the school, all of you who commented on Facebook, and all of the staff and children who made banners and cheered me round so many times!”
“Although I have done longer distance challenges in the past, I can honestly say in terms of leg pain/ache that was one of the hardest… I totally underestimated what a toll the mini turns would take on my body!”
He added: “I said that I would find a replacement challenge for the London Marathon and ‘The School Playground Ultramarathon’ was it!”
In 2017, we reported here that Sonny had completed a gruelling challenge by walking up and down Brean Down 100 times in a day to raise money for a children’s charity and inspire others to conquer their personal goals. He is pictured above during the fundraiser.
And in July 2018, we reported here how he took on the challenge of walking and running ten circuits of a 10-mile route in a day around Burnham, Highbridge and Brent Knoll for Children’s Hospice South West.
In September 2019, we reported here how he had completed 32 non-stop jogging and walking circuits of a 2.5-mile course around the top of Brean Down.
See https://www.facebook.com/sonnytophampersonalcoaching/ to donate to the charity.
