Lulworth Cove to Worth Matravers - 13 miles

This walk was an absolute killer.  Do not even think about doing it unless you are fitter than a Border Collie.  By the time we'd walked from the coast path back to the village of Worth Matravers we'd walked 15.3 miles and had also completed 1395m of ascent which apparently is the equivalent of walking up Ben Nevis.  ...........................And to think Ann was considering doing the '3 peaks challenge'??  No way would she be able to do that.  Even I found today's walk hard and I'm a super fit collie.

I sooo wish we'd started counting the number of steps we went up and down at the start of this walk.  We counted the steps on the last 'up' section and it was way more than 200 so we're guessing we've gone up and down thousands today.

Ann says this is the hardest walk she has ever done in her whole life?!  We've probably been walking for about 8 hours today.  Started just after 10am and didn't get back to the car till about 6.20pm.  Thank god the clocks don't go back till next weekend because otherwise we would have been walking in the dark.

Although this section was described as 'challenging' on the SWCP website Ann stupidly didn't really take much notice of it because she was determined to do the walk come what may?!  Obviously we've walked the 'Bude to Hartland Quay' section which is described as the 'most severe' section of the entire coast path.  That was hard - but we did it in June when it was light at night and we were prepared for it to be 15 miles of hard walking.  The 'Pendeen to St Ives' section is also described as one of the most difficult sections.  So we stupidly thought that this section would be reasonably OK.

.........................One must never assume?!!!!!

Oh well, at least the scenery was stunning and we've done it now - Yippeee!