I managed to convince 5 of my friends to enter the race with me as a team, and together we set out to tackle each challenge as a team, helping each other through, over and under obstacles, all while having fun!
The course consists of 15 challenges, all requiring a relatively good level of fitness to complete - some more demanding than others - set approximately 500m apart.
Take into consideration that your first set of challenges are water-based, and then you end up in dams of mud half way through the race, you're pretty much dirty from the word go.
The Mud-Monster challenge was, in my opinion, the most challenging of the lot.
You basically slide down a hill into a pool of mud that reaches your middle. Then, as soon as you've walked through to the other side, you have to try get yourself out of this mud dam, up a hill that's about 1.5m higher than ground level - but with all the slippery mud, zero grip and no place to hold, the task requires team work to push you up and over - into another mud pool.
You go through three of these mud pools till you eventually reach dry ground again to continue the race.
Another highlight was the Ice tubs called the "Deep Freeze" - which is exactly what it says. Swimming through a container filled with ice... Brrrrrrrrrr!
From a physical exercise point of view, the track was quite demanding, requiring you to use every muscle in your body to get you through the course.
Apart from this, you end up full of cuts and bruises from leopard crawling, jumping over things, climbing up walls, jumping off platforms and running over a very rocky hill!
Needless to say, I didnt make it to gym on Monday morning - because i needed the day to recover!
But it's definitely something i will do again!
Bring on 11-12 May for Warrior 3!
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