Adrenaline Shock 5k OCR

6 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km in a race in York.

: Sunday, 26th of March 2017
: Led by York runner
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We heard about a super and local obstacle course race through one of our members, so a brave group from York and Sheffield went for a recce.

It was a beautiful, sunny morning for an OCR and only ONE GoodGymer forgot about the clock change. After a last minute dash to collect Al, we headed north.

The early morning chill was still in the air when we arrived and once registered we tentatively went on the course familiarisation all wrapped up warm. We hadn't realised just how familiar you needed to be with the course so tried to stay as clean and dry as possible whilst 'testing' some of the obstacles, including a muddy tunnel.

Whilst hanging around waiting for the race briefing, Super Suze from Sheffield emerged with an enormous bags of snacks that made us all very happy. We munched Jaffa Cakes whilst discussing the best race attire. Despite being advised to wear long sleeves, some of us were being very hardcore in shorts and t-shirts. We also met Proctor from Ultimate Hell Week on BBC2 and he convinced us to enter another OCR before we'd even started this one!

The race began and the first 4km saw us jumping barriers, clambering over hay bales, running up hills, over tussocks, into boggy puddles and through ditches. 'The Sickener' was a highlight, with a zig zag run up and down a hill several times over.

For the last kilometre, we entered the 'Krypton Factor' with loads of awesome obstacles really close together. There were vertical walls, cargo nets, stuff to climb over, other stuff to roll under, a brilliant if not slightly terrifying rope swing, the illusion jump, a fireman's pole and enough balance beams to challenge a gymnast. Our race numbers lasted all of about two seconds.

Some of us managed to somehow stay cleaner than others. Becky's hair was completely immaculate for the whole race but I had mud as far in as my ear drums.

We all survived to claim our goodie bags, nailed the free chocolate and got cleaned up before Suze brought out more sweets to get us through the journey home.

10k next year, anyone?!