of hay bales. The largest natural obstacle was a freezing knee-deep stream through which participants had to run for around 70m.By contrast, the second half lacked any obstacles, the organisers obviously feeling that headwind plus shoe-sucking bogs
and plenty of runners who'd travelled a distance to take part.The route, run mostly on roads but with a small trail section through some woods and a mile-long stretch across Hinton Airfield, was encouraging enough to induce a gung-ho approach, but with more
At the time of writing, your event rating for Sunday's Great North Run gives the world's biggest half marathon an overall score of 77 per cent. Not bad, but a long way off the 96 per cent scored by the same day's Anglesey Marathon, and also dwarfed
,000 from the event so far, and I have to say I’ve never cared less what time I finished in.So the Great Gorilla Run was a huge success for organisers and immense fun for participants. It has left some of us openly suffering from 'gorilla suit withdrawal
Brr...whassat? My alarm clock going for it at 6:45am on a Sunday morning! Just had two nights on the beer/wine/armagnac/gin and you want us to get out of a warm comfy bed in Eastbourne and drive to Reading to run around some muddy tracks in cold
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