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Best and worst of the week.

Happy Friday!

 

 

 

 

By NATALIA HAWK

It’s FRIDAY! This will be excellent news to all of you, except those who work on weekends. And those who have to get up early for Saturday sport. I am sorry for your loss of Friday excellence.

Friday’s also the day when we get together to talk about our weeks. More specifically, the highlights and lowlights and the things that are generally on our minds.

It’s incredibly therapeutic and really lovely to catch up on what’s happening in other people’s worlds.

I’ll kick us off:

BEST: I did Tough Mudder last weekend. For those who don’t know, it’s a 20-km course filled with some crazy obstacles that you have to somehow get through. Think: ice baths, giant piles of logs, monkey bars, giant walls… and mud. Lots of mud. Apparently it’s called ‘Tough Mudder’ for a reason.

Anyway, I was freaking out a bit beforehand – I can’t run 20km on a regular day, let alone a 30-degree-day with shoes full of mud. I can’t do monkey bars and I can’t climb high walls and I am not such a fan of pitch-black, underground mud tunnels.

But you know what? I finished. My whole team finished. We did it in great time. And I did SO MANY THINGS that I never thought I was capable of doing.

It’s a team event and you have to sign a pledge that says you will help out your fellow Tough Mudders. So every time I fell down, there was a stranger’s helping hand to pull me back up again. Every time I came to a giant wall, there was someone waiting to give me a lift over. And every time I reached the end of an obstacle, there was an outstretched hand there, ready to help me out.

I haven’t ever seen that spirit of camaraderie in a fitness event before. And even though my body was hurting at the end of that 20km – I felt so happy and so proud of myself and my team.

I also have many bruises in odd places which I keep discovering, so that keeps life exciting.

Before and after. (I know I don’t even look particularly muddy – there was a pool to swim through at the very end!)

WORST: Sad things happening to loved ones and loved ones of loved ones. Love to all those who are struggling.

What was your best and worst of the week?