5K me arse!!! Kerry and Paul have been doing this race for years and I had the pleasure of joining them this year. The race is deep in the Scottish countryside, not entirely sure if it’s the highlands or lowlands but definitely bloody cold and wet lands… and the distance is more like 10k… and then it’s up near-vertical bog and tracks, across hill tops, down through dense forests (and a mid-forest disco), through waist-high freezing river (won’t be seeing them for a while I said to spectator as I emerged from the water), under a tunnel filled with that same freezing water, through a swamp, literally into a cargo net from a serious height, under even more cargo nets, over 8 foot high walls and finally crossing the finish line… Then having to camp in the freezing Scottish night in my clothes, without showers and having to walk through a maze of tents in the pitch dark to have a piss and then having to scrape ice off my tent in the morning… On the up side it was the most exciting and exhilarating adventure race I have ever done, I had really the best time!! Speaking of times… I ran as fast as I could and covered 10k in 1.27.35, that’s how tough it was! Everyone should do this race!