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24 challenges in 24 days

By Nicki Schroeder

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I'm fundraising for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Starting a new challenge to raise funds on Judy’s birthday. 24 challenges in 24 days. I’ve chosen 8 fitness, 8 philanthropic and 8 fasts over 24 days. I will post the day’s challenge on Facebook daily  

Pancreatic cancer is tough to diagnose, tough to treat and tough to research. By the time Judy was diagnosed it was too late and we lost her far too soon  

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Two weeks down, final week begins.

Today has been a juice fast day and surprisingly I haven’t been as hungry as I thought I would be, although my teeth are tingling and I don’t think this would be a long term good idea for dental health. One more juice left to go and I must admit I am looking forward to solid food tomorrow. 

I am going to make tomorrow another fast day - this time an alcohol free day - because it’s a red carpet event - Pride of Britain. Saying I won’t drink alcohol on a Monday evening is just par for the course if I’m just going to work and staying at home but I would ordinarily have had a glass of champagne and some wine with dinner at Pride of Britain. And the TV cameras are there so there will be some evidence that I haven’t cheated 😂

Days 14 and 15

I missed posting yesterday but day 14’s challenge was to cycle for 24 mins. Friday was a busy day at work with an early start and ended with dinner with old friends so this did not get gone before midnight on Friday but has now been completed 🤗

Today was an out of order philanthropic challenge today due to scheduling issues. I volunteered for the day in the local Oxfam shop where I helped with their sale of musical instruments and sorted and priced clothes. A lot of fun but surprising tiring. 

Tomorrow the plan is to do a juice fast - several bags of fruit and vegetables have been purchased, the juicer has been dragged out from the back of a cupboard and the Jason Vale app has been downloaded. Wish me luck!

Busy day today but day 13 in the books

Day 13 and today was a philanthropic challenge. I had a super busy day at work which I knew was going to be the case. Started at 9am and have just got home at 10pm with no breaks so today was a donation virtually to the local food bank

Tomorrow is an endurance challenge so will go for a 24 min cycle ride. I’ve never been a good cyclist - have rubbish strength in my quads so have always found this a challenge - but will give it a go on a static bike to avoid killing myself on London roads 😀

#24challengesin24days

Half way through

Half way through

My vegan day was unexpectedly enjoyable. 

Started the day with homemade bread, peanut butter, oat yoghurt and a banana with black coffee. 

Lunch was a baguette from Pret a Manager with olive tapenade and avocado and salad. I’d never have picked this but it was delicious and I’ll certainly have it again. 

Dinner was spaghetti with home made tomato and black olive sauce. No Parmesan but the olives were sufficiently umami that that wasn’t needed. 

I must have been mad but I even did another Jillian Michaels DVD workout this morning having got the bug yesterday. I may not be able to walk tomorrow!

Tomorrow is another philanthropic day. It’s going to be a busy day at work tomorrow so my plan is for tomorrow to be a donation to the local food bank. 

Day 10 Aerobics challenge

Ooof! Aerobics challenge today and I am hot and tired. 

Tomorrow is a fast and I am a vegan for the day. Have made a vegan loaf today for breakfast, have ordered a vegan meal at my lunchtime meeting and spaghetti in tomato sauce planned for dinner. 

Thanks for all the donations. You’ve all been fabulous and taking into account some donations which accidentally got logged to my other fundraiser a couple of years ago (but will still reach PC UK) we’ve raised about £1500 so far!

Day 9 - Litter picking

Heading out after work to do some litter picking. Not the most pleasant way to end a day in the office but one little local stretch of is now looking a lot better. 

Tomorrow is another fitness challenge and I will dig out a Jillian Michael’s advanced aerobics DVD and try to struggle through this from a standing start. For those who know I might be “Anita” 😂

Second week begins

Week 2 begins and it’s another fasting challenge today, this time sugar free. 

The day started with a bacon and egg sandwich- quite a treat really with some freshly squeezed orange and a cup of tea. 

Lunch was on the run, and Pret A Manger macaroni cheese and a bottle of unsweetened cranberry juice. I was surprised by how much of the service station’s offerings did have added sugar. Couldn’t find anything suitable in Leon and even the salt and vinegar crisps in Pret were a no go. 

Eyed my daughter enviously as she tucked into her bag of Revels and tub of popcorn watching #DespicableMe4 - movie was a lot of fun - whilst I made do with a bottle of water. 

Home for dinner which was spaghetti and meatballs with more water. 

Tomorrow is another philanthropic day so am going to find somewhere to do some litter picking whilst it’s light before work tomorrow morning.

The end of the first week of challenges

Day 7 and today my challenge was to skip for 24 minutes. How hard could that be? I used to love skipping with my friends as a child. But that was 50 odd years ago and it turns out you can forget how to do these things!

Rather more tripping over the rope and mistiming the jump than I had expected and it was a very stop start motion but somehow the 24 mins have been achieved. 

Tomorrow is a fasting challenge and I will be sugar-free for the day. We are taking my sugar loving daughter to watch the new Despicable Me movie and she will no doubt be face down in a bag of Pick and Mix but I will stand firm!

Coming to the end of my first week

Day 6 of the challenge and I had committed to donating 24 items to charity. It’s not much of a challenge just to donate things which you didn’t want anyway so I said farewell to a fabulous neon orange Reiss dress which always turns a few heads, a pair of black velvet J Brand jeans, a Phase Eight skirt and blouse combo which is always good for a wedding or dressy event along with 2 winter coats which will keep someone warm this winter now that the weather has turned cold, some scarves and some nice unopened toiletries and perfumes I’d been saving to pamper myself with. 

Tomorrow I am back doing a fitness challenge and this 55 year old body will be digging out a skipping rope and trying to get 24 mins of skipping under her belt. Wish me luck!

300 “hundreds” in 24 hours

The Pilates hundred is one of the hardest exercises to do and today I planned to do 3 sets across the day whilst working from home. A plan of mice and men clearly as it went awry when my day started with an early doors call from the boss man and was then spent firefighting. So we’ve got to 8.40pm and I am 200 down (all in a 2 hour period) with 100 left to go before bedtime. They will get done but oh my poor abs 😂

Tomorrow’s challenge is a day of no non-work related screens so there will be no blog post tomorrow. 

Normal service will be restored on Friday when my challenge is to donate 24 items I’d really rather keep to charity. 

Making hats for preemies

Day 3 and a new challenge. Making hats for premature babies. The cats decided to join in playing with the yarn as I knitted. 

4 cute little hats made for donation. 

Tomorrow is another fitness challenge. The hundred is one of the hardest Pilates challenge so I will try to aim for 300 over the course of the day. 

Caffeine free was harder than you might think…

Day 2 of my 24 challenges in 24 days to raise funds and awareness for Pancreatic cancer Uk and the challenge I set myself was to be caffeine free for the day. Getting towards the end of the day and could do with a pick me up around now! Sorry everyone if I was snappy today…

Tomorrow is a philanthropic one and the plan is to make hats for premature babies. 

What’s up tomorrow?

First challenge in the bag today. A 5km run this morning puffed out slowly and steadily in just under an hour. For an extra challenge, I was accompanied for a short stretch by a very large rat running beside me along the canal. As I am terrified of rats that did spur me on somewhat. 

Tomorrow’s challenge will be a 24 hour cold turkey caffeine fast (apologies in advance to family and colleagues for any irritability experienced). I usually run at about 6 or 7 caffeine hits a day…

Thank you to my Sponsors

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Jeff Smele

A really good cause

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Steve Mcquillan

Great cause, good luck Nicki

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Neil Ashby

Great challenge, Nicki and a really important cause.

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Eileen Wilson

Keep going Nicki, such am amazing cause….remembering Judy 💕

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Annie Deasy

Good luck Nicki xx

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Jaina Patel

Good luck Nicki! What creative challenges for a great cause!

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Kevin & Ellie

Bravo Nicki - and good luck with the challenges

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Angela Hill

Great challenge, a worthy cause! Well done xx

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Lana Wood

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The Hancocks

Great cause, Nicki

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Chris & Moira Schroeder

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Stephen Turkington

This makes me all the more emotional as I recently lost a friend (my age) to pancreatic cancer. Diagnosed in May, died in August. It’s lovely that you keep your sister’s memory alive this way, Nicki x

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P Ettie

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Elspeth Hanna

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Adam Sparkes

Good luck!

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Clare Hoban

Best wishes for your fundraising x

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Lou Clover

Good luck Nicki!

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Martin Cruddace

Lovely thing to do. No skipping any!

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Helena Priest

Best of luck with all of these fantastic challenges. Your sister would be very proud x

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Katie Holmes

Wishing you the best of luck! X

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Ruth C

Wonderful challenge. Best of luck. :-)

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Nicki Schroeder