The Two Fat Ladies -a brief history!

Welcome to the Two Fat Ladies Adventure Racing Blog.

We are Mark and Chris, two semi-fit (in the loosest possible sence of the term) lads who, mid 2007 where on the look out for some sort of fun sporting activity to take part in that was a bit different. A month or two before the inaugural Kilbroney Challenge, I happened to come across some info on it and after having a look at what it might entail and deciding on our team name, we signed up.

This left us with about a month to train and the more we thought about this the more we realised that we where possibly not the best matched as a pair for an AR. Chris is an excelent runner and im...well...not. Im a pretty good MTB'er and while Chris was much better on a MTB than I was on my feet, his skill level was still a bit below mine. Basically I was going to hold Chris up on the run and he was going to hold me up on the cycle, assuming I survived the run. Neither of us had done any serious kayaking before so we decided to just ignore that part and worry about it as we lifted our paddles!

We where never an in it to win it team, just wanting to challenge ourselves while having fun so we made do with making sure I was capable of running 10K and still being able to get on a bike for a decent cycle and getting Chris some technical MTBing practice. The day of the race came and after just over 6 hours we crossed the finish line practically asleep. Reviews can be seen here [http://www.notthesundayrun.com/newgallery/index.php?gallery=./z/The%20Kilbroney%20Challenge%202007] so I wont repeat the details. The general consensus was that it had been considerably harder than any of the CCAR races of the year which we had been reading about to guage our ability to compete in the race. It was a good week before I could walk properly but we made it in a fairly respectible time roughly what we had aimed for. More importantly we where both instantly hooked! The most important thing after this was where do we sign up for the remaining CCAR races!