{"id":9429,"date":"2026-01-27T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:53:10","slug":"leith-legends-march-to-the-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/leith-legends-march-to-the-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Leith Legends &#8216;March to the Match!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon Scotland! A group of Harbour Homes sheltered housing tenants have set off on a 3,070-mile walking challenge from Easter Road Stadium. The &#8216;<em>Leith Legends<\/em>&#8216;, comprising two teams, are walking the distance from Edinburgh to Boston in 140 days. They&#8217;ll &#8216;virtually&#8217; arrive at the Gillette Stadium ahead of Scotland&#8217;s first FIFA World Cup game against Haiti.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9431 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/mttm-group-flags.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a group of sheltered housing tenants waving large Scotland flags inside Easter Road Stadium.\" width=\"1667\" height=\"938\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;<em>March to the Match<\/em>&#8216; will be the\u00a0longest journey attempted by tenants who have previously walked the distance from John o\u2019Groat\u2019s to Land\u2019s End (1,280 miles) and from Alloway to Dumfries in the footsteps of Robert Burns (60 miles).<\/p>\n<p>The challenge officially kicked-off with a walk around Easter Road Stadium, with the two walking squads adorned with Scotland flags and team t-shirts. They will finish their challenge on Sunday 14 June to coincide with Scotland arriving at the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1998.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/mttm-coaches.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Maureen Combe and Martin Hunter wearing their coach t-shirts.\" width=\"1667\" height=\"938\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> Maureen Combe (Sheltered Housing Manager) and Martin Hunter (Sheltered Housing Co-ordinator) have joined the walking challenge as team coaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maureen Combe, Sheltered Housing Manager at Harbour Homes said:<\/strong> \u201cThis is an exciting year to be a Scotland supporter. With this challenge, both football fans and non-football fans alike can get involved in all the thrills and the atmosphere that a World Cup brings. It is known that increased movement and group exercise are among the best things we can do to look after our health as we age, and those taking part are motivated by the benefits walking brings to them. This year\u2019s teams are up for the challenge, and we\u2019ll be cheering them on every step of the way!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathleen Devine who is participating in the challenge said:<\/strong> \u201cI joined Leith Legends and March to the Match to improve my walking and get my steps up. I really enjoyed our first team walk at Easter Road Stadium. It was lovely to participate, and being part of a team walking together felt really good. It was great to meet tenants from the other developments. I\u2019m really looking forward to lots more walking and counting our steps together until we reach Boston!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two teams taking part are <em>\u2018We\u2019re Still-Game\u2019<\/em> and the <em>\u2018Pro-Aimers\u2019<\/em>. They will be aiming to walk a collective 22 miles per day for 140 days. Good luck to all those walking!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Neil Hanna<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of Harbour Homes sheltered housing tenants have set off on a 3,070-mile walking challenge from Easter Road Stadium.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homes","category-sheltered-housing"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Harbour Homes","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}