Coastal BoardWalk - Sun 1st April

Today I did the Marion Council Coastal Board Walk which from memory runs from Seacliff Park to Marion.  It is estimated to be 3 hour round trip, I'm going with Mica a PT who I am with on a Saturday.  I'm feeling exciting to take on the challenge - I'm sure that excitment fizzled out not long after.... LOL

I got the above picture from the net because I didn't look 'UP' much nor ahead I don't think I wanted to know what was coming and I think that if I saw this I don't know how well I would have faired LOL!!!! However it does remind me of this saying....

It's a fair walk I did watch a video of Keith Conlon from postcards doing it and I thought well if he can do it so can I however now that I think about it I think he only did a bit of it and filmed and stopped where accordling.

He did walk down these big set of stairs to take us to the foreshore so I took a picture of it as I said to the PT 'please don't make me go down there' I might not make it back up again LOL.

I took a few pics along the way as you can see and kept waiting for a 'you are here' type sign which would have been good to have known where I was exactly and how much further to go.  Have you ever noticed how far things seem when you have NO idea where you are going??? (here is the 'what you will find' sign)

The trip back of course didn't seem as long and did see a lot easier.  Either my legs were complete jelly by now or I was mentally 'gone' I wasn't thinking anything except being able to finish.  I did have a bit of a  mini meltdown again because the PT and another lady were meters ahead of me, I couldn't hear any of the converstaion and I felt sad that they didn't seem to stop to ask how I was going.  

So I cracked the shits as the mind games with myself started and once I started thinking the negative thoughts they just came gushing out!  I was crying saying I felt like I had been 'left behind'.  (I have no double too that 'lady's time' is not far away I swear this PT proabbly thinking I am nuts.  The last two breakdowns have been with her)!  I do feel bad that I made a comment that I felt that I was 'being left out' I wasn't meaning to slow anyone down but it's just upsetting when we are told we all do it together and we are all over the place.  I think this picture sums my feelings up well -

These fences are funny too I get that they are build this way so major animals and probably bikes can't get through and you know if you have to manage to get your bike in there then good luck to you!  But I kept thinking what if your shorter and a bigger lady you might not be able to get through!

We finish the walk in 3 hours and 15 minutes so just a bit longer than I expected but we did have to stop a few things on the way back.  I also smashed through 1890 calories which was lovely as I suspect I'm about to have a non eventual next two days proabably not be walking too well!

I took this picture which is in the middle of the conservation park right near a cafe where (thank god) there's a toilet and a chance to sit and eat and be merry however I feard to 'sit down' as I thought I might not get up again in a hurry!  There were so many people there enjoying the morning.

We also got passed by a few people running up and down however saw the same people 2 or 3 times and the PT said that a lot of people just run certain sections of the boardwalk I said thank god as I was starting to think they were just 'that good' and I was hopeless LOL'