Episode #424 - South West Coast Path (Days 8-10)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The last three days have tested me yet again, though I'm pretty much on schedule. A schoolboy error on my part led to a very low energy day, though meeting dear friends at the end of the day more than made up for it.

I'm using my hike in the UK on the South West Coast Path to help raise money for my absolute favorite charity, Parenting Matters, on whose board I've been privileged to serve for over a decade. You can learn more about the hike and the organization–and donate–by visiting https://parentingmattersfl.org/eventer/hike-with-steve-empowering-parents-one-step-at-a-time/edate/2024-04-15/. And, maybe, you'll get a personal picture of me thanking you with your name etched in the sand during my hike. I hope you want to support this critical mission.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the ultimate midlife crisis,
0:24.6	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.6	Welcome back to the third installment of our Southwest Coast Path journey, not the Appalachian
0:42.8	Trail for the next couple of months, and I'm here in Devon and Cornwall walking the
0:48.1	Southwest Coast Path.
0:49.3	Trying to raise money for parenting matters, and for those of you already contributed,
0:53.4	I really appreciate that. And most of you you by the time you hear this hopefully would have
0:58.5	received your pictures of me tracing your name in the sand and thank you for the
1:05.6	donation it's been another wonderful glorious three days in many ways and tough in other ways.
1:14.6	I've had another tricky day.
1:19.6	The last day, I'm actually now having a day off, day number 10 is a day off.
1:26.6	But you know, this isn't quite how I planned it but nearly I'm
1:31.4	nearly up to date with the plan but you know I think you've got to be prepared to make
1:35.2	changes as you go along and I've been certainly been prepared to do that and
1:38.8	and enjoyed doing that to be honest with you you can do things on the fly which
1:42.9	sometimes life doesn't allow you to do and when you're you you can do things on the fly which sometimes life doesn't allow you to do
1:45.1	and when you're hiking you can do this stuff and i've done pretty well so far i'm about 99 miles in
1:52.0	so i'm happy with what i've done but so we're going to start now with day number eight.
2:09.5	Day eight, Bidford, to 2.5 miles past Westwood Ho.
2:12.4	A total of 10.5 miles.
2:15.6	I didn't have a good start yesterday.
2:25.3	Oh, by the way, I don't know whether you can hear it, but I'm sitting on a cliff top with virtually no breeze, so hopefully you can hear this well. And just the very gentle water lapping down below me. It's glorious.
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