{"id":24229,"date":"2017-05-08T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:36:09","slug":"tough-mudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/tough-mudder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Mudder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well we did it… Completed the London West Tough Mudder and raised loads of money for Diabetes UK<\/a>. It was all Rebecca’s fault! She has Type 1 Diabetes and talked me into doing it with her and a couple of her friends. I didn’t really know that much about the event itself when I agreed to it last year. I knew it was a tough obstacle course with lots of mud but that was about it.<\/p>\n

Tough Mudder<\/h2>\n

As the event approached though I did a little research and discovered that it was more than 10 gruelling miles with obstacles, mud, ice cold water and electric shocks! Some of the obstacles looked near to impossible, other just down-right uncomfortable. It should be just my thing! It wasn’t cheap to enter mind you and the organisers seemed to be cashing in at every opportunity. Spectators had to pay, we had to pay for parking and every email from them was giving us yet another opportunity to pay for something else, be it a priority pass or some merchandise. It looked like it should be fun though. There was a Mini Mudder for Morgan to enter and plenty of spectating for Anna, so we were looking forward to a good day out.<\/p>\n

We stayed at a Premier Inn the night before and then drove the 45 minutes or so to the event venue near Henley early on Saturday morning. I did of course have a full breakfast beforehand! We met Rebecca and her friend Genevieve and Sam as we arrived and got ourselves ready. We registered, and such like and then made our way to the warm-up area. We checked that Rebecca’s constant blood glucose monitoring device was firmly attached, protected as much as possible from the elements and working correctly. Anna and Morgan were on photography duty and we joined our wave of fellow ‘Mudders’ ready for the start.<\/p>\n\n\t\t