Well done Sara Cox and all the CIN walkers

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Amazing effort from Sara Cox and all Children In Need walkers this year. Lindsay Burrow has carried on Rob’s legacy in fundraising with a ‘three-legged’ walk (tied together with a Look North presenter) across Yorkshire. Many more have done other impressive things (that I couldn’t do). I think they’re amazing.

💯 It really is that simple, isn’t it?
Well, for most of us anyway!

Sara has done a fantastic job. We should all applaud her. What a woman. I couldn't do what she has done

No good deed goes unpunished, eh. I’ve been following her progress all week on radio 2 and online and I think she’s an absolute inspiration. It’s been so tough and she’s really had to dig deep to get to the end. The pain she’s been in, but she’s carried on. I donated, she’s done a wonderful thing for a very worthy cause.

Well done, Sara. What an achievement. Saw it on the news tonight.

Well done sara❤, I love how women on MN support women, it's amazing🙄not! C'mon ladies support one another!

It’ll be interesting to know whether all the moaners watched The Traitors…

I think she did amazingly and actually hearing her made me donate and that donation was due to her and not due to being for CIN as really not something I would normally donate to ( which is quite funny as this year not only did I give to Sara's challenge my dc were involved via school so donated twice!). Anyway I think she did a fantastic job .

I'm im awe of Sara Cox, such an inspiration!
What she did was incredible and the amount of money raised will help a lot of people. I don't see what there is not to love!?!

I think it has been one of the most interesting CIN challenges for some time.

She's raised a record amount of money that the sector desperately needs. For those of us working in the sector this is a ray of hope and there are not many at the moment.

But she's also done an enormous amount for the women over 50 and the challenge to misogynistic language used to describe us has been brilliant.

That said I do think it's crazy that fundraising for a charity that puts a huge emphasis on safeguarding has put someone's health on the line like this. I can't help but worry she's done permanent damage to herself doing such a gruelling challenge.

On a personal level, she’s amazing to do this, and the money raised is incredibly impressive.

Howecer, she was in no way equipped to do this challenge, she needed a lot more training over a longer period, and it was absolutely reckless and dangerous to put her through it. There is no way someone can go from running 5k to 5 ultra-marathons over 5 days in that period of time. Her running / movement style, even early in the week, and at the start of the day, was really worrying (speaking as a runner. Who has run marathons and most certainly could NOT do what she did!)

But she's also done an enormous amount for the women over 50 and the challenge to misogynistic language used to describe us has been brilliant.

I disagree with this. She dragged herself through this, as she simply wasn’t fit enough or properly trained. There are many many women over 50 who are deeply impressive due to their athletic accomplishments and recognised as such.

I admire her for what she has done, through so much pain & suffering for her, she’s a great person. But as an example of sporting or physical accomplishment, through no fault of her own, she really is not demonstrating this.

It’s not much of an insult, though, is it?

I didn't like watching her during the last couple of days of it. It looked like it was too much. So much pressure on her not to quit but looked to be having a massive impact on her health. It was uncomfortable watching.

Remember when the sainted Terry Wogan and Chris Evans used to do those CIN Charity auctions that really only very wealthy people could participate in, and all the moaning that happened on here because of that? People have chosen to donate money to her because they thought what she did was impressive. That's how sponsored events work. How about next time the local primary school does a sponsored walk you go into their assembly and slag them all off?

Well done to someone who put themselves out to raise and amount of money.

Not a good example though. Take on realistic challenges and train for them properly. I’m as or more inspired by non celebs that ran 5k, half or marathons. They get a lot less money due to promotion and profile, but have really thought it through.

In this case there is a full back up crew so would not have added any pressure to services if she needed help so that was good.

How old is her daughter? She should not be sitting on an adults lap.