The time has come to let you know exactly how crazy 2017 is going to be. I am thinking that it may be the last of my 'BIG' challenge years, with subsequent years returning to focussing on one or two key events, so I figure I may as well make it totally epic!!!
I have always steered clear of serious obstacle races because of the risk of injury but 2017 sees me step up to the challenge of not one, but a whole season of them! My upper body strength is pretty abysmal so Winter will see me putting in some fairly tough training to get myself up to a standard that is less embarrassing by the Spring. Warm up races aside, the season will start in earnest on 11th March with Ratrace's The Mighty Deerstalker. Billed as the UK's biggest night race, this looks set to be a tough cookie as it is set in Scotland... in March ... at night!!! It will involve woodlands, mountains, scree slopes, river wades and more... all by the light of our headtorches. Wish me luck!!! I will then have a short break before the summer season kicks off in May with Ratrace's Dirty Weekend. This truly is a humdinger of a run - 20 miles scattered with 200+ obstacles. I have got to get my obstacle racing sorted ready for this!!! And then I need to make a swift recovery as the following weekend sees my return to the fantastic Hope 24, for 24 hours of battling with Plympton's hills and woodland. June will see the family return to Ratrace's Runstock, the epic 8 hour event we all took part in in 2016 and are so looking forward to already. Then once again a quick recovery will be needed as the following week I take on the 69 miles of Hadrian's Wall in Ratrace's The Wall. July will see me running a marathon with a difference in the Lake District in Rat Race's Man v Lakes - this marathon will see us getting our feet/legs wet start to finish and doesn't look to be for the faint-hearted! And then we make a jaunt to London for Ratrace's Survival of the Fittest - a 10km obstacle course around Wembley Stadium with a Gladiator's-style travellator finish! August will mostly be spent recovering and re-grouping before heading to Snowdonia in September for Ratrace's Man v Mountain. This race see us running from Caernarfon to Snowdon, then up over the mountain and finishing getting rather wet in Dinorwic's slate quarry lakes! And then another go at Survival of the Fittest, this time in Cardiff... before what will hopefully be my final run of the season - in mid-October - 2 marathons in 2 days in the Sahara Desert. It looks set to be an amazing season. And I won't be alone! Along with my usual side-kicks of Ian and Ellie who form the most amazing support crew when they aren't taking part in their own event, I am being joined by a few other friends along the way and, incredibly, by one friend for the entire season! I am sure there are going to be a lot of tears alongside the cheers all the way. Watch this space!! :-)
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