day 1: still optimistic

we met a guy just after porlock weir who's on his thirteenth time round. he's carrying as much as us (around 15kg in the end!) and doing 20 miles a day. he aims to finish in 4.5 weeks. this shouldn't be impossible then!

that said, the heavy bags were hurting today. and we were very glad to stop after our 13 mile first day. we did manage to set up a nice camp before the rain set in at bed time though:

jin x

13 miles/25,700 steps

and they're off!

the seemingly endless kit is packed. the throat is mostly better. it is, in otherwords, time to man up and get on with it.

please do spur us along with comments, even if they're only telling us what we already know: that we're mad!

t minus 13 hours...

so it turns out that i'm taking a lot of stuff. a hell of a lot:

there's the sleeping and wearing stuff...

the food and cooking stuff...

the keep it handy and first aid stuff...

the daily wash kit stuff...

the 'i don't know how to classify it' stuff...

the washing and non emergency first aid type stuff...

and the stuff i'm gonna wear...

even when it's packed up it looks like loads...

ah well. i can always ditch half of it after the first hill!

jin x

1 night to go...

huzzah!

the glands are beating a hasty retreat. as are the white spots which showed up on my tonsils yesterday...

jinni's immune system (with the help of strepsils -1 : tonsillitis - 0

jin x

2 days to go...

uh oh...

my glands are up. and i feel like i'm swallowing glass.

not ideal for starting a 39 day walk...

jin x

3 days to go...

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

this time in 5 days i'll hopefully be settling down after my first days walking.

that is all.

jin x

where we'll be and when

i made a new page!

it contains details of where we'll be passing each day, where we're staying or planning on pitching, how much distance we'll be covering in total and per day in both miles and kms for those out there who prefer those (are there those out there that prefer kms?)

the astute among you will motice that this totals 575 miles, not the previously advertised 630. i've based this all on some gps tracks for the coastpath which i downloaded from some nice website or other (the bad blogger in me has forgotton which one - if you happen to know please speak up and i'll give credit where it's due!) and that's the distance they total.

where the other 55 miles have gone is a mistery to me! however i'd be happy if they stay missing frankly.

please go and check it out if you're thinking of joining at any point - the link is in the shiny new tabs bar, at the top of the page, so it'll be easy to find all the time!

i need sleep now, cos that took aaaaages to put together, up next...whatever comes to mind in the penultimate week.

ps. please sponsor us if you can!

jin x
10 days to go...