Chichester fundraiser walks for 24 hours continuously for Parkinson’s UK
and live on Freeview channel 276
The 26-year-old from Chichester spent 23 and a half hours walking laps around Farlington Marshes in Portsmouth – completing 20 laps of five kilometres for a cause which is particularly close to Ollie’s heart as both of his grandparents suffered from the disease.
Mr Biddle said: “It was extremely tough, both physically and mentally. By the final few laps, I was hallucinating, I could barely pick my feet up and was physically leaning on my mum to get me round. But it’s something that means a lot to me and that was what kept me going through the final laps, when I felt like my legs were going to give up on me and I couldn’t keep going anymore.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide Ad“At one point a jogger tapped me on the shoulder and asked to tag along with me for a lap, that local community spirit really got me through some of the harder laps. The walk itself was on what would have been my grandma’s 88th birthday, so it meant even more because of that.”
The fundraiser, who works at Chichester-based brand agency, Collaborate, trained during his lunch breaks. Collaborate also doubled Ollie’s total, leaving him with the final amount of £3,696.
He said: “The team have supported me massively with this and are really understanding about me training on my lunch breaks. We’re a small team of 11 and are a really tight-knit community, which means we all support each other whatever we’re up to”.