A long time ago I took part in the Tough Guy Nettle warrior. It is a crazy 10 mile obstacle course including crawling through mud, swimming, jumping off stuff and general putting yourself through a lot of discomfort. As I did this on my own (and there was no way I was taking a camera!) I have no photos to share as proof - so I waited for the DVD footage to arrive and sadly I did not feature once! However, from the attached you will get the drift.
The worst obstacle by far was the Vietcong tunnels. Very aptly named 50 ft long underground pits that had lengths of wood, scaffold poles and waiting for it.... electrically charged wires hanging from the roof. It was nuts! To get out of these you had to crawl up through sewerage pipes for about 20 feet - and that took all your skin off knees and elbows. All in all I had a great time - and recommend it to all.
A couple of weeks ago I took part in the Cabbage Patch 10 which is a famous road race along the Thames near Twickenham. As this is close to home my wife and girls came to watch and I therefore looked at the route on the Internet to find a good vantage point. To my horror the 10 in Cabbage 10 refers to miles and not Kilometres! Bugger. We also had friends coming round for lunch that day so the pressure was on! The run was great - I finished in 1hr 20m which was good as I took it easy to take care of my bad Achilles. Everything was fine at the end so I think I am on the mend.
As seems to be the case with my blogging - there will be another one in a couple of days as we now have had our teams confirmed for the Polar Race. I will introduce the team members in the next blog! Until then....
The worst obstacle by far was the Vietcong tunnels. Very aptly named 50 ft long underground pits that had lengths of wood, scaffold poles and waiting for it.... electrically charged wires hanging from the roof. It was nuts! To get out of these you had to crawl up through sewerage pipes for about 20 feet - and that took all your skin off knees and elbows. All in all I had a great time - and recommend it to all.
A couple of weeks ago I took part in the Cabbage Patch 10 which is a famous road race along the Thames near Twickenham. As this is close to home my wife and girls came to watch and I therefore looked at the route on the Internet to find a good vantage point. To my horror the 10 in Cabbage 10 refers to miles and not Kilometres! Bugger. We also had friends coming round for lunch that day so the pressure was on! The run was great - I finished in 1hr 20m which was good as I took it easy to take care of my bad Achilles. Everything was fine at the end so I think I am on the mend.
As seems to be the case with my blogging - there will be another one in a couple of days as we now have had our teams confirmed for the Polar Race. I will introduce the team members in the next blog! Until then....
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