I had the muddiest time ever achieving my fourth New Thing For My 40th Year:
The Kamikaze is an 8-mile assault course run consisting of hills, more hills and yet more hills, all of an incline up which I've only ever walked (usually moaning and stopping to 'take in the view'). Not only that, on each lap of the course there were the following...
• Snake's Wedding: An entanglement of rope to navigate
• Kamikaze Slide: 10 meters of plastic and washing-up liquid in downhill fun!
• Bog Crossing: You will get muddy. Very muddy...
• Rope Climb: A hillside so steep it requires a rope to climb it
• River Run: You will get wet. Very wet...
And there's more. These items littered the finish straight:
• Japanese tunnels
• Barbed wire crawl
• 6-foot wall
• Electric box (owies on my arm)
• Grease wall
The most I'd ever run before was about 5 miles and, for the record, a 50-min jog around Bransgore the Friday before the race on Sunday really isn't anywhere near enough preparation.
However, with the emotional and sometimes physical support of my lovely friends Paula Holgate and Sophie Di Leo I got through it, completed the 2 laps, ran 8 miles for the first time and even found some of it hilarious!
The Kamikaze is an 8-mile assault course run consisting of hills, more hills and yet more hills, all of an incline up which I've only ever walked (usually moaning and stopping to 'take in the view'). Not only that, on each lap of the course there were the following...
• Snake's Wedding: An entanglement of rope to navigate
• Kamikaze Slide: 10 meters of plastic and washing-up liquid in downhill fun!
• Bog Crossing: You will get muddy. Very muddy...
• Rope Climb: A hillside so steep it requires a rope to climb it
• River Run: You will get wet. Very wet...
And there's more. These items littered the finish straight:
• Japanese tunnels
• Barbed wire crawl
• 6-foot wall
• Electric box (owies on my arm)
• Grease wall
The most I'd ever run before was about 5 miles and, for the record, a 50-min jog around Bransgore the Friday before the race on Sunday really isn't anywhere near enough preparation.
However, with the emotional and sometimes physical support of my lovely friends Paula Holgate and Sophie Di Leo I got through it, completed the 2 laps, ran 8 miles for the first time and even found some of it hilarious!
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