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Originally Posted by georgeyw
Well the one here is in September, so will definitely follow your advice about the running and weights.
Thanks for that, looking forward to it. When you say electrical, i'm wrong in thinking you get a shock ?
Oh and for the top 20 overall - big congratulations on that, blown away by that, you must be pretty damn fit. |
Thanks, I've stayed in pretty good shape, but I think the two biggest factors have been that I've been a long distance runner since I was 14, and I've always been very very stubborn about giving in to pain....
There are two obstacles involving electricity. One is the Electric Eel, with a rack about 2 feet high, 10 yards wide, and about 15 yards long. You have to low crawl on elbows and your belly in 4 inches of cold water, and hanging from the rack are hundreds of wires that are randomly giving out 10,000 watt shocks. (The amps are low, so it won't kill you)..... It HURTS at times. My tactic is to start cursing like a pissed off drunken sailor and just go through as fast as I can. If you go slowly you are only going to get shocked more often.
The second is called Electo-shock therapy. It happens right at the end of the course. Same as the first, except it's standing height, and you run through thick mud as you are going through the wires. The shocks may knock you down. Don't try to crawl through, it will only hit you in the head and hurt more. Just get back up and keep moving.
Those two obstacles, and the plunge/swim through ice water (called the chernobyl jaccuzzi), at the beginning of the course, are my least favorites.
It's all good though.
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