The Biggest Jump EVER

Distance. Height. My own sheer fright.

They're just some of the big jumps waiting for me tomorrow.

And so we move on to event number two, that's actually now the actual event number one, but still unofficially "event number two" anyway after my rubbish attempt at a trail run in April.

It is absolutely guaranteed to be wet and muddy, difficult enough, and oh so bloody long. Bloody, bloody, bloody long.

Check out the Rat Race course build video below!

Let's get it out there one more time - I'm not sure I've said it before, and if I have then you clearly haven't heard me - but

I AM NOT VERY GOOD AT RUNNING.

For sure, I have been training, but mostly in the gym because it's more fun, and sprinkling the odd 2 or 3 km run in there every now and again. They happen when I'm made to feel just guilty enough.

Now 5 or 6 months down the line for this fundraiser, and I am still a food loving, cardio hating, height despising, absolute KING of running procrastination, and the worst bit about it is that there is literally nothing I can think of to excuse myself from it now.

And no freak snowstorm to save me either.

Remember when I showed off in the last blog post after my 5 mile trail? Well this one will be the next longest off roader, and it is TWENTY MILES.

That's a hell of a jump, right?

It's the kind of distance that man invented cars for. And bikes. And trains.

And speaking of jumps, look at the height of that bloody thing - 7 metres!

The kind of distance I am able to comfortably run in fact.

Wish me luck!

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