Shady Goings On

On 29th January (week and a half ago) I took part in probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done…

Yes, it was ToughGuy.

For those who don’t know ToughGuy is an event held every year in a complex of fields some where near Wolverhampton. The event consists of a 5 miles (ish) cross-country run followed by an assault course.
Doesn’t sound so bad does it?
Well now consider that the run includes going up and down a steep hill (very rough terrain) probably 10 times just for the sake of it, then there’s running back and forth through a wood in and out of a ditch just for the sake of it, oh and that’s just for starters…
The assault course was rock hard. Given that it was January I expected it to be cold, even the harsh weather forcast wasn’t so suprising. I was suprised though when we arrived at the venue and the was ice on the ponds and water courses, I woudn’t have minded if I didn’t have to swim through most if it!
The course itself consists of some 20 obsticles including electric curtains (my best description!), cargo net log a-frames bigger than my house, freezing swims and underwater plunges, vietcong tunnels, barbed wire crawls, tyre tunnels, long sections of thick knee-high mug (Deadleg Swamp) and even burning haybails to jump over. Enough said I think…
I’m well chuffed I got round, I didn’t do a great deal of training beforehand but what I did do paid off big time! Before ToughGuy the furthest I’d ever run was three miles, and that was on road. It was my determination that got me round, but I was so cold by the end that if I’d been another 10 minutes I’d have given in.

Official site at www.toughguy.co.uk

Anyway who’s for NettleWarrior? 30th July 2006
Ah yes, the summer event!
(Do the run and twice round the assault course, no ice this time though…)

It’s been a while since I posted so I though I’d better write something!

Since we got back from holiday we’ve both been really busy at work, and now we’ve kicked off the decorating again.
We’ve now made a start on the master bedroom, well a bit more than that actually… we moved into the spare room so we could empty ours (a luxury not everyone has!) and now we’ve stripped the walls, painted the ceiling and skirting boards and we’re now on with wallpapering.
We’re getting near choosing some colours for the walls. I think we’ll have Roasted Red for the main wall and a lighter colour for the other walls. We’re also thinking about making a stencil for the main wall and painting a silvery design on it.
We’ve also started doing the staircase. We’re stripping the gloss off the wood and sanding it down, we’ll then replace the plywood part of the banister with iron balustrades (or maybe wooden spindles). We’ve already ripped off the plywood from the landing and tried out the look with some balustrades and it looks cool…!

What else?

Well there plenty more for me to talk about but I’ll come back later as I’m off to bed now… but here’s a taster (and a reminer for me!)

• ToughGuy
• GTM Libra roof mod
• Holiday photos
• More Libra stuff like fancy dash systems, led lights, fibreglass splitter…