First up Jade - never one to mince her words, back down from any challenge or able to resist ANYTHING in leopard print! Grrrr.... Is this why we call her tigger?!
Second up with her "guns" always at the ready - as her fav secret santa yet best pressie ever tee-shirt says - the Lucinda-tron.
And last but by no means least, the mighty PT - she may be small but 'runner-up' is not in her vocab - this lady won BEST individual in the recent National Sweaty Betty Runathon competition by running 10 miles a day for a week if I recall!!
Don't let this pic deceive you - this was just Jade and PT psyching out the competition - they are actually thinking:
35 markers to check off in 4 hours -
"Piece of cake. Actually make that two"
So after deciding that they should pace themselves, and that just participating was the most important thing......
Wait, wait.........slipped into science fiction for a second there........this trio's strategy was simple - run, run some more, and CRUSH the competition.
So 15 checkpoints were knocked out... in 2 hours 17 mins and 44 seconds, earning this trio a mammoth score of 325 and placing them 127th out of thousands of teams.... right ;-) and all without recoursing to illegal bikes unlike some teams!! In fact the girls ran over 14km all around London - even despite having to dodge a mammoth protest march which was also snaking it's way around central London.
A well thought out route - these girls packed brains and brawn.
But now to the exciting bit - the CHECKPOINTS - the only one I can actually recall is, unsurprisingly, the food related one!! Cue the hob nob challenge - which by all accounts Lucinda excelled at!!
Then there was the absailing challenge which didn't play to Lucinda's strengths quite so much. If they'd thrown a hob nob over the side of the Oval it would have been a completely different matter cos Lucinda would have been down like a shot!
PT hasn't even broken into a sweat yet - outrageous!
Yes outrageously I stole these pics - Fortunately Jade doesn't mind.
Also who can forget the getting groped at the Tate challenge - oops otherwise known as getting spun and walking blindfolded into trees....
There was one delight I believe the girls didn't sample - bouncing around in the moat at the Tower of London - Tigger I'm ashamed of you....
However, hands down, the girls did a TERRIFIC job - I certainly couldn't have matched them. Not quite yet anyway. Fortunately there's always next time ;-)
For all their incredible efforts they were awarded their badges of honour....
which were closely followed by MASSIVE VICTORY smiles....
The mighty Team 247.
Congratulations girls....SO, SO proud/ envious!! of you. The historic/ iconic landmarks of London will never be the same ever again. xx
* This account is the absolute factual eyewitness account of the events of last Saturday as of course I was there, and not slacking off avoiding any and all hardcore exercise 'due to sickness'. Additionally when the girls was recalling their adventures at training on Monday night - I was not dying of oxygen deprivation during another killer Mel plyometric sess and 100% consumed with trying to remember how to breathe and jump simultaneously - I was, of course, listening attentively, taking it all in and making mental notes so I could give you lovelies the truth, the whole truth and nothing but my version of the truth ;-)) xx
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