Kouros completes One Million Step Challenge with Diabetes UK - and signs up for next year

Cambridge man Kouros Majidi has collected a medal after completing the One Million Step Challenge with Diabetes UK - and has already signed up again for next year.

The 51-year-old clocked up 1,212,477 steps by walking a route around Cambridge every day from July 1 to September 30, raising £545 in the process and improving his diabetic health.

The retired photographic technician, who has type II diabetes and had heart surgery in 2009, said: “I’ve enjoyed it very much and signed up again for next year. It has helped my health immensely and I’ve lost 3kg in weight. I’ve had a heart check and my cardiologist said I was better than last year.”

Mr Majidi, 51, said he completed a daily route that took him past Netherhall School and the Robin Hood pub, towards Cherry Hinton Hall and the leisure centre on Cherry Hinton Road, before passing Long Road Sixth Form, heading onto Cambridge Biomedical Campus and Hills Road before returning home.

You can visit his donation page at https://step.diabetes.org.uk/pages/kourosmajidi or register your interest in next year’s challenge at https://step.diabetes.org.uk/.