The Mud Run Report by Daisy M
On the 19th of June ‘The Secondary School Mud
Run’ took place at Motukarara. Four students from West Melton School competed
in it :Daisy M, Stacey M, Aydan S and Ted W. We were in the
‘mixed’ team category against high schools. There were 52 teams in our race-
actually, it's not a race it's a ‘fun run’ to get kids minds off the
earthquakes. Our team number was“852”. It was a 5km run going through mud.
There were 4 main obstacles -
1: A slide we had to go down with some mud at the
bottom.
2: Barbed wire crawl - we had to crawl through mud that your hands would
sink into and there was barbed wire above our heads.
3: Swamp - a swamp full of
mud that we had to go through (and it stunk)!
4: The finish line - where you had
to hold your teammates hands to cross the line or you would be disqualified.
On “GO” we had started...We were off to a great
start - well, we were at the back, but any way, we were running and then Ted
fell over so we had to stop and support him. We went up a hill and then our
first obstacle ‘the slide’. At the bottom of the slide there was lots of mud
that went up your pants!!! Then we were off again. We could hear people
yelling “GO TADS” which was our team name because of our initials- Ted, Aydan,
Daisy, Stacey. Then we came up to our second obstacle ‘the barbwire crawl’
we got very muddy! Finally we were at our third obstacle ‘the swamp’ it stunk!!
There it is - we see the finish line. We climbed up stairs and down a
pole and sprinted to the finish when we hear the speaker say “and here comes
West Melton School our FIRST mixed team”!
We had won! We came first! No sooner
had we crossed the finish line we were given a bag of prizes which included
four beanies, four pairs of running socks, four drink bottles and four
chocolate bars! Then a TV One reporter came and interviewed us about our
experience. We were on the six o'clock news!
It was a great experience and I would love to do
it again. I definitely recommend it!
Daisy
