WAS running through fire or sprinting through a field of live wires on your to do list last weekend?
For a number of City of Casey residents, it was.
The brave and courageous were all found in one spot last weekend when the annual Tough Mudder challenge took place at the Grand Prix Circuit at Phillip Island.
The 18-20km challenge is designed to test not only your physical ability, but your mental endurance as well.
Leader of a Narre Warren and Berwick based boot camp; Carmen Lisson was one of many to participate, forming part of a group of 20 members.
Team ’Carmen Get Fit’ were one of many groups to endure the 28 obstacles in what Ms Lisson said was a great day for all.
“This year was definitely a lot better,” the Berwick resident said.
“They catered for everyone.”
The fitness instructor said it was the teamwork that she saw that attracted her to events such as these.
“It’s great to see everyone helping each other,” she said.
“It’s great to see team work between complete strangers shown to one another.”
Vickie Wolff was another local resident who can boast a successful day at the Tough Mudder event.
Ms Wolff, who participated with a group from Genesis Gym in Berwick, said it felt great to complete a challenge such as this.
“We are all older women with children, so it was a great sense of achievement after lots of people telling us that we shouldn’t do it,” she said.
Ms Wolff completed the challenge with a team of nine, which included personal trainers from Gensis who began boot camps to help the group prepare.
The Narre Warren South resident said it was the gym’s trainers who persuaded the women to do it.
“A couple of the personal trainers convinced us to do it,” Ms Wolff said.
She said once the training got underway each team member realised how different it was, but it did get easier.
“We all thought we were pretty fit, but the training was completely different,” she said.
But months of hard work paid off last weekend, when Ms Wolff and her team completed the slog.
The successful competitior said for her team it was simply about reaching the finish line.
“It was more about team building and camaraderie, and getting everyone through,” she said.
