Breast Walk Ever | Oxfordshire | 10K

Fitness level

This walk is suitable for all ages and abilities with a little training.

There's a choice of 10K, half or full marathon distances so choose the distance that's right for you. Whether you are an experienced walker or are taking on a walking challenge for the first time, you will need to do some training to make sure you have an enjoyable and successful experience on the day.

Solo walkers or teams

You can choose to take part on your own, with your dog, with friends, family or work colleagues.

Dogs

Well-behaved dogs on leads are very welcome to take part.

Event HQ

Wallingford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10
UK

Overview

This stunning 10K route heads out on national trails, bridleways and public footpaths.

Highlights

• North Stoke

  The setting for Midsommer Wellow in Midsommer Murders.

• Moulsford

  Just North of the stretch of the river immortalised in "The Wind in the Willows”.

• Wallingford Bridge

  Medieval link between Wallingford and Crowmarsh.

Description

The 10K starts at Wallingford, heads south down Watery Lane, through Newham Murren and Mongewell to North Stoke before heading through St Marys church and looping round onto the Ridgeway just before Little Stoke heading back to Mongewell crossing the Nosworthy Way Bridge and heading back to Wallingford past the boatyard and through the most historic parts of the town.

When you sign up to take part in the Breast Walk Ever, you will receive:

Included

• Fundraising pack full of helpful hints and ideas to get you started
• Training tips and plans to make sure you are prepared for your Breast Walk Ever
• Refreshments including hot and cold drinks, snacks and water refills at each checkpoint
• Medical assistance and post-walk massage

Available to purchase

• T-shirts
• Zipped hooded tops
• Dog bandanas

Against Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK claiming the lives of almost 1000 women every month.

Against Breast Cancer funds lifesaving research into secondary spread, the main cause of breast cancer-related deaths.

From humble beginnings, nurse Pat Leathem and her pathologist husband Anthony founded Against Breast Cancer in 1993 from their home in Clifton Hampden. Determined to improve rates of survival from secondary spread, the pair embarked on a mission to improve detection, treatment and increase survival rates for patients after breast cancer diagnosis.

Today the charity continues this goal, funding challenging, long term projects through research teams based at several of the UK’s leading academic institutions.

The research addresses three key areas:

• Prevention

  How diet and lifestyle may increase or reduce the risk of secondary breast cancer developing to provide sound, evidence-based advice relevant to a UK population.

• Detection

  How to design better tools for earlier diagnosis of secondary breast cancer to increase survival rates.

• Therapies

  How the body’s natural defences could be harnessed to design more effective treatments and ultimately a vaccine against breast cancer.

The sponsorship you will raise by taking part in the Breast Walk Ever will go towards us continuing this life-changing research, benefiting the lives of thousands of women and men in the future.

Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

2024 fees to be confirmed.

Entry fees

I plan to keep walking so that I can continue to raise money for Against Breast Cancer. I long for the day when we conquer this problem and a vaccination can be found to protect women like my daughters and granddaughters. Di

I’ll never forget it, just how rewarding it would be and it still amazes me to this day at how many kind people there are willing to help. Pat Leathem, Co-founder of Against Breast Cancer

The walk from Wallingford and back via Hardwick, was very well signposted and interesting. very well organised and friendly. Thank you. Guy

Your support is more important than ever, as we know that the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in many women not being diagnosed with breast cancer at the earliest possible opportunity. This means that many will discover their breast cancer at a point when it is more difficult to treat or has spread to become incurable. Professor Ingunn Holen, University of Sheffield