A hardy bunch of walkers raising vital funds for a health charity have reached their destination.
Leanne Holler, who lives in Leven, organised the walk along all 82.5 miles of the Fife coastal path in aid of the MS Society Scotland.
Her closest family and friends also took part in the walk. It was inspired by Leanne’s mum Louise, who was diagnosed with the condition in 1998.
Louise, who lives in Kennoway, waved the intrepid walkers off from the Tay Road Bridge early on April 8. The band kept to schedule and arrived on time at North Queensferry on Monday.
They have been humbled by the generosity of those they encountered who stopped to add to the collection.
With the finishing line in sight, Leanne told The Courier, “We set ourselves a time to finish every day at 5pm, but while we’ve been walking we’ve been held up a bit-but in a good way, by taking so many donations.
“So far we have made £1100, and that’s just from the collection boxes.”
Now that total is to be added to the sponsorship each walker raised. Leanne added it was “amazing how well everybody had done. We all picked up injuries when training I had a really bad knee training so much, but I’ve not had any aches or pains.
“It must be the adrenaline keeping us all going.”
She said the change in her mum’s symptoms over the past year had been her motivation to get involved with the MS Society.
Louise said having MS meant that over the last couple of years certain things in her life she had previously managed without any problems have become so much harder, but she has been at the finishing point every evening to see the hardy bunch.
“She is so proud of us, you can see it when she sees us at the finishing line each day,” added Leanne.MS is the most common disabling neurological condition affecting young adults, and Scotland has the highest prevalence of it in the world, with an estimated 10,500 people affected by the condition. It is the result of damage to myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibres of the central nervous system, which interferes with messages between the brain and the body.