This month’s challenge is one that I have been excited about for a long time – the infamous Soldier Challenge. This event is run by the same company that organised my September challenge, the London Urban Rat Race Adventure. If that event is anything to go by, I’m in for a real treat!
The Soldier Challenge is a unique military-styled physical and mental test, combining distance running with 35 military-themed challenges.
Participants competing as a team will be traversing around the city, completing a number of different military themed challenges and locating other special checkpoints en route.
The event gives participants exclusive access to many famous central London venues and the chance to experience them in a completely new and unique way. The venues are be spread far and wide and, using an A-Z map, participants have to navigate their way around, trying to visit as many checkpoints as possible.
Details of the activities at the checkpoints will be released on the day, but participants are forewarned to expect a real mix of physical, mental and entertaining activities, all with a military twist. We’ll be facing all sorts of madness, from running to kayaking, singing to rope swinging, assault courses to code-cracking, beer-mat flipping to spy-spotting – it could be anything!
I shall be taking on the challenge with two team mates from my hockey club. Our wave starts at ten hundred hours from headquarters (the event village) based at London Waterloo. We will then have four hours to hit as many checkpoints as we can, and get a true taste of what it takes to be a soldier.
Over and out.
