Mt Lofty - 1st February

For anyone who lives in Adelaide knows all too well about 'Mt Lofty'.  I woke up one morning after chatting to some people online inspired by all their healthy adventures that I too would climb Mt Lofty!  I must have been completely crazy to think that without any training I could do this, but figured how hard could it be? People do it all the time...

I notice on the sign 2.5 hour return - hmmm that's alright I think.... oh boy was I wrong....

I met up with 3 others from an online forum and we met to climb Lofty on Wednesday 1st Feb @ 9.30am.  Two super fit bunny's bounced ahead of us and myself with another girl took our time slowly going up.  I had barely started when I seriously felt like coughing up a lung!

It took 2 hours and 19 minutes to climb that mountain and then it took another 1 hour and 20 odd minutes to come down the thing with my jelly legs, but I am so glad that I did it!!!

Here are the tables that I am sure are for self sacrific they are about half way up the moutain which is right before it gets really hard.........






These seats are everywhere and I think I sat on everyone!!! I needed to check out their stability of course....

Not that you can get lost but there are many markers on the track just when you think you are doing awesome you look and see this marker and go 'OMG I still have a long way to go....." LOL

At least I now have a bench mark of time and know what is in store for me.  I will go back one day to do it again!  I got super sunburnt as it was an overcast day and I was a bit stiff and sore for the next three days but surprisingly I was still able to walk!