There was method behind our madness in running the Brutal 10k last week. Not only was it ticking off another event of our journey but it was a little ploy to get some serious off-road practice in. The ‘Porridge Pot or Bust’ Helly Hanson Challenge is the next event in the calendar and is certainly going to be the toughest yet.
This challenge is set to be a riot as the event involves a 10k assault course, 25k trail mountain bike and a 1k canoe. What’s more, the entire event must be completed in a team of 3, and they don’t tell you the order of the three disciplines until the day.
Team 30B430 consists of Tommy and myself, naturally, and we have recruited Alex Kershaw (Kersh) to make our trio. A big thank you to Kersh for joining us, we couldn’t have recruited better.
To make it even more interesting and to add to the ever growing list of people getting involved with us, my esteemed housemate Oliver has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged us to a race. He his team, ‘Macho Macho Macho’ (and no that’s not a joke), consists of his honourable self, and two other great guys in Ben Lakin and Alex Dulewicz (Wideboy). A very fit bunch indeed which is why Olly has registered his team in the front group of three, with the elite runners, ehem. Team 30B430 will be starting in the more conservative second wave, so we won’t know who has won until we have both finished, very exciting.
There is a small gentlemen’s wager of dinner at stake which will serve as incentive enough and anyone with nothing to do on Sunday 30th January should come down and laugh at us, or cheer us on depending on which way you are inclined.
To get more of an idea of what the day holds go visit the site here http://www.trailplus.com/adventure-challenge-series.php
In other news I have run into an amazing site being run by an old buddy of mine John McInroy. Some of you will know John, some of you won’t but his site www.redsockfriday.com is spreading good vibes all round the world with a simple idea and is something that 30B430 can certainly relate to.
I was lucky enough to be his 1000th member which is a great achievement for them and I will soon be red socking at many of our events. John has even mentioned possibly joining us for an event when he is over from his home in South Africa. Big shoOops to them. Go check them out and sign up.
Meanwhile, the search for events is still ongoing and our FB page is up to 44 followers. We want people to get involved with us so make sure you sign up to the page and the blog and we’ll keep in touch about what is happening next. http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=158069597573821&sk=market#!/pages/30b430/158069597573821
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