GORE BAY—A group of young people from the Gore Bay area completed in the “Tough Mudder” event held at the Moonstone Ski Hill (in Coldwater), this past Saturday. The eight kilometre course includes 12 major obstacles that participants and teams encounter and need to complete.
“It was a lot of fun, and we all felt a great sense of accomplishment at completing the course,” stated Janelle Addison, one of the members of the Night Fall team, who along with MacKenzie Turner, John Glasby, Curtis Addison and his girlfriend Josee Talbot, worked together as a team in the event. The Tough Mudder event is a very tough obstacle race series which includes mud, water, tunnels, barricades, walls and more and is held worldwide.
“The point of the competition is working together as a team to get through all the obstacles on the course and finish the course at the same time,” said Ms. Addison. “You help members of your team through the obstacles. For instance, one of the obstacles is called the Berlin Wall, a 10- to 12-foot high wooden wall, and you have no ropes, or footholds, but have to lift up members of your own team to get over it. And there is the water obstacle where you have to swim over barrels in the water travelling through cylindrical culverts filled with water.”
“It probably takes about two-and-a-half-hours to complete the course,” said Ms. Addison. She pointed out none of the Night Fall team members had competed in a Tough Mudder competition previously, although Mr. Glasby and Ms. Turner have taken part in similar type events.
At the end of the course run, “we were muddy, and had scrapes and bruises, but we agreed we will training throughout the year and will be doing it again next year,” added Ms. Addison.
