PACTRAC's Jemima Gee led a team of 4 in the X-Runner Wild
Warrior Adventure Race in Derbyshire.
Jemima said afterwards "It was
brilliant, freezing, hilarious, muddy and challenging. We spent a high
percentage of the time immersed in freezing water, in the swamp or on
the ropes. It was just 3 degrees out there today. Hard work! My team
mates were fantastic! We are so pleased to have raised awareness and a
great amount for Pancreatic Cancer UK."
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Jemima reports:
"I have competed in a few road-running events before,
but nothing quite prepared me for the X-Runner Wild Warrior race.
I managed to get together a team of four ‘Dirty Girls’ to take on the
challenge to raise funds for Pancreatic Cancer UK. Unfortunately one
of our team had to pull out of the event a few days before because of
health issues, so we took on a ‘Dirty Boy’ as our fourth member.
The event is billed as one of the toughest adventure races around and it
certainly lived up to its description. The event was held at Wild Park
in Brailsford, an amazing location, set in a picturesque valley in
Derbyshire.
The trail race consisted of 3-mile laps across undulating
fields and wooded areas, with plenty of water and mud to wade through.
The Wild Warrior, eXtreme obstacle course race, included obstacles such
as
•The Swamp of Doom
•Water Slides
•Tightropes
•Tunnels
•Quick Sand
•Giant Walls
•Cargo Nets
•Mud
•Water
•a Fire Jump
•..and many more
exhausting challenges.
Race day was a very chilly 3 degrees Celsius!
We definitely needed the warm-up session, before the air-raid siren and
fireworks started off our heat, as we spent about 50% of the race being
plunged into deep water and wading through muddy swamps and trenches.
There was a lot of water! The other key ingredient of this race was
mud.. and lots of it. We didn’t remain clean for too long after
throwing ourselves under numerous cargo nets and running through boggy
woodlands. I think the course used every muscle in my body.
My personal highlight was managing to haul myself up a rope on a wet and
muddy high bank, even though my biceps were screaming at me to give
up! The narrow, mucky, wet tunnels were just a few of the 35
obstacles we had to tackle along the course.
One thing I noticed
around the course was the fantastic camaraderie and team-work in play.
Everyone was helping each other out and offering words of
encouragement. There was lots of laughter and smiling too. It’s
highly amusing seeing grown ups slipping and sliding around in the mud!
These types of events seem to be gaining in popularity and I can see
why. They make fitness fun, appeal to lots of people and offer an
exciting challenge.
The X-Runner Wild Warrior event was physically and
mentally challenging. I’m a bit battered and bruised, but would I do
this type of race again? Of course I would! It was Muddy Good Fun!!
Pancreatic Cancer UK is the only national charity fighting pancreatic
cancer on all fronts: Support, Information, Campaigning and Research.
We were thrilled to have raised over £1,000 for them."