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Dirty Dozen Races 2015 - "London South"

18/4/2015

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The founder of this event series is Doug 'The Beard,' Spence. I was quite eager to meet him after watching many of his obstacle tutorials. The video for getting over walls in particular has made a huge difference in my approach to OCR events, saving me energy in using my legs as oppose to my arms. On more than one occasion I've had positive comments from fellow racers on my wall technique. There's also The Beard's technique for getting over the Irish Table which left spectators watching really confused as to what just happened!
          So as you can see in the picture below I was just a tad over excited to meet one of the legends of OCR, The Beard.
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The Beard and JC

There are loads of obstacles on this race, but I've just picked a few of the highlights here:

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Floating Barrels. A river to swim down but there are four sets of barrels in the way, duck under them to get past. This ones leaves you with brain freeze!
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Irish Table. A big table for you to get up and over. I think doing this using The Beard's method of feet over first made this one more fun, more so the reaction from everyone else seeing you use this unconventional method.
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Log Carry. It's not the first time I've carried a log in OCR, but it's definitely the longest course I had to carry one for. The logs aren't too heavy and in fact was useful in helping me get up the muddy trenches. It was funny watching everyone carry the logs as it reminded me of the old PC game The Settlers.
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Pet Tyre. (the name I've given it). One of my favourites as the course we had to navigate with our tyre with quite challenging. Similar to Log Carry with lots of mud and ditches to drag your rubber through.
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Tarzan Bars. I've completed this before at Tough Mudder last year, it looks very similar but today was not my day for it. This picture shows me three quarters of the way, just before I sploshed.
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Mud Trenches. There were a lot of this. In fact it was in the Pet Tyre and Log Carry too. These obstacles were tough because there was so little to hold on to. A good team effort helped you through.
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Big Walls. This is the final obstacle, a ten foot wall. We were given a helping hand with the two ledges at the bottom. It took me three attempts to tackles this on my own, however in this photo François does it on his first attempt.
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LFNS Promo Video is Live

8/4/2015

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This promotional video for the LFNS was started nearly two years ago but because of delays beyond my control it's been in a state of limbo. I finished it in January but we thought we'd release it when the weather picks up to help encapsulate the excitement of skating in the sunshine. (Winter skating is only for the diehard). This week seems perfect for the video release as the weather outlook is amazing. With the added bonus of such a fantastic Easter Bunny Stroll Skate last Sunday lets carry riding this wave of buzzing endorphins! 
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Easter Slalom Showdown 2015

6/4/2015

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Alice vs JC
My look of hysteria as I'm about to get owned by little Alice.
As part of the annual London skate scene's Easter weekend I took part in the Easter Slalom Showdown. The event is more for fun yet I always fail to show anything near my best. 


I'd taken part in the Bunny Stroll Street Skate for the two hours before so brought along four different wheels so I can rocker my skates to make them appropriate for slalom style skating. However the wheels were too similar a size to create a proper rocker. So essentially the flat wheels setup meant I couldn't turn as well as I usually can.

I frantically practised before my name was called up, hoping I'd somehow I'd break in the new wheels in time. However all was in vain as I heard them call me.

To my dismay I was up against little Alice. She's about half my size and I have twice the skate years on her as she's been alive. To that extent it would sound like I should win but,.. I've seen her skate. 


Regardless of my skate wardrobe malfunction lets just say Alice went on to win overall. I take my bunny ears off to you.


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Infographic Event Reviews

3/4/2015

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infographic event reviews
Because I'm finding it difficult to get time to write these days; plus to make it clearer for people who don't have time to read all the details; I've developed an infographic for my event reviews. The initial setup took a bit of time especially updating all previous events, but going forth this should hopefully make events posts quicker to upload.

I've also created a new 'obstacle course racing review,' page. So you can easily scroll down and compare events as well as having easy access to the events' site, full reviews and youtube videos.

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Colds and Heart Rate

2/4/2015

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heart rate with a cold
I've done a couple of runs using the 180-Formula after reading an article from fellow blogger Van. (180 minus your age to find your target heart rate). 

Although I find it hard to step off the throttle I do like how casual and more pleasurable the overall run is.

Today however I noticed that I'm considerably slower than I normally am in order to keep to my target heart rate. (I was running at less than 5 mph, about 1.5 mph slower than previous). It wasn't till I finished that I wondered that if the cold I currently have is the cause of this. Several websites and forums agree with this statement although am yet to find a more official page on this.



Nethertheless I completed my first work to home 10 mile journey. 2 hours 13 minutes.

Despite the cold I enjoyed the run and the time went pretty quick. It was nice once I got closer to home that runners would give you a hood wink, unlike the less friendly London runners. (Chill my friend, just stereotyping here)!


I'm looking forward to repeat the journey once this snottiness disappears... 

 
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