Isabelle, Andrew & Mo!: November 2008

As you will be aware Isabelle occasionally runs (or wobbly jogs to be accurate!). Sometimes she even enters races and such, especially with her friend Clare (who is very much into technical gadgets and measuring things like time, distance, calories burned, speed, how many kitkats can be eaten afterwards etc etc).
Well, during training for the Great North Run in 2007 Isabelle suggested to Clare that an adventure race might be fun. So, without further ado Clare sussed out the Whole Hog series and noticed that the Hog Dash would be in Sheffield in 2008.
We thought it would be fun to have a girls team, so Vorsprung Pork Technic was born. Vorsprung was going to be Julia (the Wuss) Brown - Clare's neice who wussed out in the end, Pork was of course Isabelle and Technic had to be the technical expert measuring and monitoring girl Clare.
Due to Julia (the Wuss) dropping out Clare valiantly recruited another wuss, Lisa 'from the gym, you'll like her honest'. She dropped out on the morning of the race, so it was Pork Technic unsprung here we go.
The race is described as "Each leg is a foot based adventure and involves competitors facing numerous challenges/obstacles around the course. What we can guarantee is a bit of mud, and a lot of fun!" How right they were....
We arrived at Hesley Wood for a safety briefing, at this point I was really suffering a bout of 'tummy legs' (bricking it), where we were told that the course had been changed slightly due to the amount of mud available!!!
The course was about 9k long and had more mud than you could imagine, in addition to that there were hills so steep and muddy we had to use ropes to climb up, scaffold towers to climb up and over, rope tangles to navigate through, logs to leap and water to wade through!!!

We completed the course laughing all the way - our mantra was "It's not a race, it's an event" poor Clare was not even wearing her gadgets to time and measure our progress. After we had finished and managed to clean up a bit and get changed into cleaner clothes we celebrated with hot chocolate and a hog roast sandwich. Whilst we were munching the organisers started to announce the winners (all entrants got a goodie bag but only the top 3 finishers for each category got a prize), Male individual, Female individual, Male team, Mixed team and finally Female team winners were announced - much to our shock and amazement we won THIRD PRIZE FEMALE TEAM. So, despite the 'Wusses' and the fact that wobbly jogger was not fit due to lack of training WE DID IT!!

Isabelle, Andrew & Mo!

Sunday, 23 November 2008

Vorsprung Pork Technic win 3rd prize!!