Assault Course Race

So one of my major Dexterity goals is to run an obstacle course race. In the last few days I've been looking around a few, and I think I've settled on the Spartan Super Race. This is a 12km race consisting of mud runs, trails and obstacles. They don't tell you quite what obstacles, but they promise you 'fire, mud, water, barbed wire, and occasionally Hell on Earth.' Well...that sounds like fun.

Yes, that is a man LEAPING OVER FIRE

Happily they also offer a free eBook which contains a pretty comprehensive training guide. To be honest, the training looks tough as hell, let alone the actual race. It looks like they want you to do a LOT of burpees. I hate burpees. I don't know anyone who doesn't. However, I know I hate them because I find them hard, and I find them hard because they require pretty fantastic levels of strength and cardio fitness. So I just need to suck it up and do more of them. It also wants you to do pull-ups. If you look in my goals, you'll see I currently cannot do a pull-up. So in a way this is difficult, but in another, more meaningful way, my goals are all coming together and soon, SOON! I will take over the world!

Fortunately, the race I'm aiming for is scheduled for September 2013, so I have plenty of time to train up and become an incredible monster made of fitness and mud running. For now I'm going to stick with the Jamie Eason programme to completion, and then probably try following the Spartan Sprint programme, and then graduating to the Spartan Super programme. If I get through that fine...maybe I'll look at the next level...maybe.

In the short term, the goals looking likely to be achieved are:
-Finish OES essay: this sucker should be finished by tomorrow. If it's not, I don't get cider.
-See the guys at least once a month (November; 5%): should be seeing them this Saturday
-See my sister at least once a month (November; 5%): My birthday's a week on Saturday, and she said she'd be home for that
-Finish stage 1 of Jamie Eason programme: Due to finish stage one the day before my 26th birthday!

So within the next 2 weeks I should have 50% experience towards level two. Actually, that's not bad! I'm not unhappy with that!

After that, next on my hit list will be:
-Do 50 let-me-ins in one set
-Crochet a viking beard hat
-Get a job in OT
-Sell my old clothes over eBay
-Finish elective placement
-Finish PGDip

Viking Beard Hat. Just FYI.

So plenty to be going on with! May end up updating this list with more awesomeness when I cross some stuff off!