It had been just over a week since Michelle and I attempted and completed the Gung-ho challenge. We did a little running but not a lot and one main reason was because it was so wet. It was heavy drenching rain and surprised there was no thunder with how dark it got at times.
We THANK YOU all for your support, at the time of writing this post YOU helped us raise over £800 for Alzheimer’s society plus a load from Gift Aid too. We thought an aim of £500 over 3 months was a bit of a high target but you all helped us SMASH it and raise over 50% more than our initial target. I am sure the money will go on to help so many people.
Running became impossible as the ground slipped between us and we saw more than one person go over and slipped over ourselves a few times injuring ankles, falling down – it was crazy but thankfully with the ground so wet, the landing wasn’t painful just very muddy. There was one occasion where I climbed up the inflatable, jumped over onto the sliding area which was an inflatable water slide now and kept skidding a few metres after the slide ended. We laughed so hard it was difficult to get up again. It was so wet that before finishing the course all the mud was washed off me.
Some of the pictures from the event from my mobile (I’ve no idea how the phone worked afterwards as it was like we’d jumped into a swimming pool):
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- Pre-event selfie at Michelles house
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- The cage where we all started from
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- John waiting
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- Michelle Waiting
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- Looking at the Start line and the clouds gathering
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- Hiding in the bushes while the rain was particularly heavy and one of us had hurt their ankle
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- Mid course after one of the heavy down pours
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- We had to run through these
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- Got through
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- The wall – I was glad I didn’t skip strength training in the gym – was needed here
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- Looking at the maze ahead
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- Inside the maze, grabbing a little shelter from the rain
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- Waiting for the last obsticle
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- We Did it!
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- We Did it! 😀
And here are some that Michelles’ husband took (J P Warwick Studios )
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- Gung Ho
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- Waiting for it to start
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- Warm up
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- Before it begins
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- And we are started
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- Heading to the start
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- Up the steps
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- And we are gone…
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- Running after the first obsticle
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- Inside the ball pit
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- Getting out the ball pit
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- Running to the next event
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- Space Walk – Bounce Time
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- Space Walk – Bounce Time
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- John sliding down last obsticle
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- Michelle sliding down last obsticle
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- We are at the end…
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- Over the finish line and FOAMED
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- Walking out to get the completed pack covered in foam
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- And we are done, and even got the T-shirt
So… What now…
As I said, its been a week since the event and we are looking to the future. This is in no way the end, just a start to a life change. We are looking to the next challenge but if it was up to me, I’d avoid the running – I don’t enjoy it but the other parts – I love that so guess I’ll be in the running again as all events seem to require it. Michelle has been looking at other various events but none in the immediate future – something for next year.
Our fitness will continue, and we will work to get ourselves how we want to be. We still have each other and all of you cheering and encouraging us on and we both see changes in ourselves. So the gym & swimming will continue, the weights and runs will continue and hopefully we will find people local to us to keep us going and join in. It is really hard on your own to progress but it will be interesting to see how we are in 6 months time and thankfully this blog has some pictures we can look back on.
So we said we needed to get fitter, lose a little of that added weight and things we didn’t like that we’ve made in our 30s and I suggested, lets try something fun – this looks like fun and its something to aim for, something to make us train for so Michelle and myself signed up for Gung-ho Newcastle on the...