I hadn't been nervous about this at all, just super excited. Until this morning when someone posted a link to Adam from Mythbusters burning his feet firewalking. It was a bit freaky, and just started the niggly fear going in the back of my head.
The whole event was amazing - performances from belly dancers, ukelele band, and African dancers kept the group amused while we waited for the fires to burn down to hot embers.
Then all of a sudden we're being asked to line up and start walking. My pulse increased significantly at this point, but once I'd actually seen the first couple of people get through OK I felt calmer again. Eventually it got to my turn and just got told to go. No time to really think about how to get across.
There was 3-4 steps on the coals and it was incredibly hot. Hotter than I ever imagined. I had got in the frame of mind that it was just going to be warm so it was somewhat of a shock but I kept moving and in a second or two it was all over and I was headed to the water pit. Huge adrenaline rush hit straight after!
The rules from the Guinness people stated that you could only go across once, which was a pity cause I would have loved to done it again. I will have to do it again somewhere exotic.
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