This was Sean's first ever obstacle course and (obviously) the first time I'd done an obstacle course with someone by my side.
We travelled down to my Aunty and Uncle's house on Friday night after work which turned out to be a mini adventure in itself. At some point in the last few weeks the words "take the exit" have somehow changed their meaning to "please keep driving straight ahead and whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE THIS EXIT!" After several U-turns and goodness knows how many missed exits we eventually arrived to a beautiful meal cooked by Uncle David (Thanks again!). We ended up going to bed much later than planned but were comforted by the fact that the event was less than 30 minutes drive away in the morning so there was no need for an early wake up call.
In contrast to Chase the Yeti back at the start of February the weather was glorious and we woke up to glorious sunshine pouring in through the window. After some confusion over petrol, lawnmowers and the art of grass cutting we had some breakfast and set off in the sun to our destination.
The event site itself was stunning and we got a chance to look around Cranford Hall, Kettering, before we started.
The event itself was brilliant and very well run (I would definitely recommend Iron Run to anyone looking for a medium difficultly obstacle run). The marshals were fantastic too.
The run started off as....well.... a run basically! After the initial two obstacles we then ran for quite a while through some pretty muddy, uneven fields. After that the obstacles were pretty evenly spaced out - some were fairly easy, others, such as the steep hills, were much more of a challenge.
The week of the Iron Run we had purchased a GoPro Cam for the marathon and used this event to test it. We got some great footage but unfortunately, we got the setting wrong which meant that we only managed to film nine-tenths of the run (sorry guys, no footage of us crossing the finish line but I promise you we did!).
Please have a look at some of the exciting obstacles and challenges we were faced with en-route accompanied by some epic Ghanaian music to remind you what this is all for!
