South Coast Challenge has arrived

Today was the day. My first major walk in 20 years. I was a little nervous, understandably I think. Would I be able to keep up with the others? Would I even finish? Would I fall off a cliff and end up fish food? All of these things, and lots more were going through my mind as we set off.

I was walking with a group of 6 other girls. Some of them had done it before which was helpful. Only two of them had I met before, so the walk was full of get-to-know you chat and general girly banter - it was great!

The weather was perfect, sunny and warm, but with a breeze. So off we set. We quickly split into two groups, only a minute or so apart but we needed to keep to our own paces and that worked.

Five hours later, after a few stops to customise our horrible t-shirts etc, we arrived at Corbiere. A sense of achievement could be seen on all our faces. It's not the longest walk in the world by any means, and half of it was pretty flat, but it was still a good walk, with some very steep climbs in places. In fact, the motto of the day was 'think of the ass'. It was that that got us up some of those very steep climbs!

But at the end of the day, I had finished the walk, I had kept up with the group (in fact I'd been setting the pace for some of it), and I most definitely hadn't fallen off the cliff and ended up as fish food. Result! In addition to that, I had made some new friends, had seen some fantastic scenery (lots of photos taken), and accomplished something that I wouldn't have even contemplated a year ago. Such as lot has changed in a year. My life is totally unrecognisable.