Walking Challenge Winners

This year's SCMH Walk Across the World walking challenge has now been completed. This year we had a wonderful 60 participants in the challenge.

The Opening Ceremony was held on the 30th of May, with participants invited to make their map character and name for the leaderboard.

The challenge took place throughout the month of June and there were some impressive point scores over the month.

Our impressive winner was Joyce (Jiayue) Ling with an amazing 1,094,852 points! (Walking from John O’Groats to Ballantrae in South Ayrshire). In second place was Sol Olivera with 902,669 points and in third place was Max Ralston with 902,208 points.

Dr Lorraine Work, Wendy Beattie, Dr Laura Dowsett, Manshi Zhou, Gabbie Gerganova, Corey McAleese, Dr Scott MacKenzie

In the team competition, the winner was The Outsiders (Sol Olivera, Joyce Ling, Richard McFarlane, George Baillie, Nicola Ralston, Madihah Hussain) with 4,081,192 points. In second place was Scrambled Legs (Connor Blair, Yi Zhan, Max Ralston, Bria O’Gorman, Sean Cooke, Alina Zorn) with 3,626,950 points, and in third place was Team Work (Lorraine Work, Marianne Donald, Wendy Beattie, Lara Birch, Nicola Gilroy, Caitlin Cosgrove).

In the honourable mentions, most creative went to the Sausage Rollers (Michelle Lee, Anna Kamdar, John McAbney, Sasha Forbes, Eline Huethorst, Erin Boland), best couple went to Liz and Joan, worst photo went to Lorraine Work, Katie Sutherland, Delyth Graham, and Blair Anderson. Best photo went to Michelle Lee, best selfie was George Baillie, most consistent was Rizky Malik Budu, best loser went to Natalie Miller, and dark horse went to Iain Black.

Many thanks to everyone who competed in this year's event. We would like to thank The Alchemy Experiment, Tinderbox Byers Road, Le Petit Coq, Bird and Blend Tea, We Are Ocho, The Purrfect Bubble, and the SAT members who brought in prizes.

We invite all participants to please complete this feedback form, as we use this data to improve our challenge for future years!

Michelle Lee, Anna Kamdar, Hannah FultonDr Lorraine Work, Manshi Zhou. Gabbie Gerganova, Dr Scott MacKenzie, Wendy Beattie, Dr Laura Dowsett, Corey McAleeseDr Lorraine Work, Katie Sutherland, Dr Del Graham, Blair AndersonWalking Challenge Prizes


First published: 8 July 2024