In McArdle disease, building and maintaining a high level of aerobic fitness is essential. Here we introduce key aspects which can help you do just that.
Children & Parents
Children under age 18 are now accommodated within the Young People’s course. They need to atttend together with a parent or gardian.
For details of the location, accommodation, costs and bookings please see the main Walking Course page.
Children and parents from England, Scotland, France and USA.
Setting off on a level path.
Within the programme
Within the Young People’s course, we make special arrangements for children under 18 together with a parent or guardian. We try to put an emphasis on fun and making friends. For the youngest we can help by making the learning more individual and the walks are shorter, or possibly making more use of pick-up points. We can help arrange more visits and sightseeing, which will help to fix the memories.
It is intended for children with McArdle’s and one parent, or possibly both. If requested, we will try to accommodate unaffected siblings – please contact us if you would like to consider this.
Young Lucy (then just 5 years old) old Andrew (course leader) on the first Children & Parents course.
A chance to meet young adults
As part of this course there will be much time spent together with young adult McArdle-ites. Seeing how they are getting on can be very reassuring for both the children and their parents.
Travelling from overseas
In the past children and parents have attended from UK, USA, France and Germany. Those from outside the UK have often integrated attendance at this event into a longer family holiday in the UK, giving the best value for the travel cost.
Lucy and Irene admiring a “tree” growing crystals – a present from the mother of a McArdle boy in Japan.