Bude to Tintagel
So its 9:30 am on Monday 20th May and me, H and H are in Bude on the north Cornish coast. We're back-packed up to the gunnels and ready to commence our 7 day "run" to Land's End, some 140 miles away to the south west.
The thing about coastal path running when you're also carrying huge backpacks (Hester's pack weighed in at 9 kilos, I'm guessing mine was 10 kilos and even Harry's panniers were fully loaded) is that running is not especially easy to do. And particularly so on this stretch of coast line - our first day's destination was Tintagel with 22 miles of really uppy downy coastline (6,000 feet's worth of uppy-downyness in fact) to get through! So although we mainly ran the flat stretches and the not too lumpy down hill stretches, the uphills tended to be yomped/staggered.
Uppy downy first days route profiles ->
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| Top = Bude to Crackington Haven and bottom = Crackington Haven to Tintagel |
So with overcast skies and a 'bit' of a wind blowing, off we jolly well went.....
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| The first of many, many beautiful sandy beaches between Bude and Land's End - this time Widemouth Bay |
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| Harry with important stick chewing to do |
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| Stunted oak woodland |
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| Coastalpath-aroos ahoy! |
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| Me with still bright shiny new fell shoes |
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| They still don't know how to do dry stone walls properly in Cornwall |
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| Downy then uppy! |
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| Lichen |
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| Bluebells and blue seas |
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| Hester cliff hole posing |
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| Rocky Vale - so called because..... |
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| The small and light backpack made for some easy running.... |
We eventually 'breezed' into Tintagel in the early evening backed by a fair to middling gale force wind, found a handy campsite on a wind battered headland (the campsite was actually called the Headland), most importantly found a wind sheltered pub in town for supper and beer before retiring to our little two person (and a sticky legged dog) tent for a very wind flappy night's sleep.
Day 2 - Tintagel to Polzeath
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