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A 72-year-old great-grandad who underwent a quadruple heart bypass has exceeded his pledge to walk ten miles a day throughout 2022 for a Warwick children’s charity as he approaches the halfway point this week.

Tony Cunningham, from Coventry, has already raised more than £4,500 for Molly Ollys by clocking up 2,500 miles on his early morning laps around the city’s Memorial Park.

Tony is approximately 450 miles over his halfway target and well on his way to covering the equivalent distance of Coventry to Detroit by the time he completes his final walk on New Year’s Eve.

Great-grandad who underwent a quadruple heart bypass sets off on year-long fundr...

Tony Cunningham with Rachel Ollerenshaw with a small Olly The Brave toy. Photo by David Fawbert

He said: “Compared to when I started out six months ago I can now say I’ve walked the walk, rather than just talked the talk – walked the equivalent of Coventry to Reykjavik in fact.

“It’s been tiring and hard going at times.

“The floods in January were the hardest. I was cold and got absolutely soaked some days.

"There was one day when I was struggling to get round and I thought to myself, what have I taken on here? It suddenly dawned on me what a mammoth challenge I’d set myself, but a guy who was jogging the opposite

Tony hitting his halfway point at Coventry Memorial Park. Photo supplied

way suddenly stopped in his tracks and just started applauding me.

Great-grandad who underwent a quadruple heart bypass reaches halfway point for his year-long fundraising challenge in aid of Warwick charity