I walked a 100 miles because I was sad...

South Downs Way, 2022

In June 2022, I hiked the South Downs Way - a trail that stretches 100 miles across a national park in south UK, through farmlands, forests, hills and coastal cliffside! I went in blind, gave myself 5 days to complete it.

5 days. No preparation. 100 miles. Why?
Well I love hiking...but also, mainly, I was going through a rough patch in life and this is how I chose to deal with it. I was tired of feeling BLEH all the time, and I decided to jump into the deep end - to give myself no escape from the thoughts I wanted to suppress, to go from FEELING alone to BEING alone, to walk and wear out and wild camp and wring out my woundedness. I dunno, attaching this mental burden to a physical challenge, and solving them in tandem, surrounded and supported by nature, just seemed more... easy?

Chapters
DAY 1
0:00 Intro to the South Downs Way
0:43 Winchester to Exton
5:22 Charming Exton Lunch & onwards
8:43 The First Trial
9:53 Butser Hill to Buriton
11:20 Setting Up Camp
DAY 2
13:38 The Breaking of the Spirit
15:39 Buriton to Heyshott Down (WET)
17:17 The Breaking of the Mind and Heart
21:35 Cocking Lunch & Graffham Down Reserves
23:10 The Breaking of the Body
25:39 Rami's Rescue & Reconstructive Surgery
DAY 3
28:05 Bus from Steyning to the Seven Sisters
29:41 The Coastal Path Hike
31:15 Reflection 🤍
33:36 Epilogue

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