FINAL plans have been completed and the last meeting held before Saturday’s Toughen Up Challenge, which will take place in Rugby Park and will see more than 500 junior and senior competitors tough it out this year.
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Committee secretary Lyn Lennon said this year’s event has been changed around slightly.
“We always change it around a little bit, just to keep interest up for those who keep coming back year after year,” Lennon said.
“So it’s a new event, basically, for everybody. There are some new challenges in there for both the juniors and the seniors.
“The juniors kick off at 10am, they have 78 teams this year and will all be held at Rugby Park. The seniors will start at 1pm this year, due to the large numbers of entries we’ve had to bring the start time forward one hour.”
Tomorrow’s toughen Up Challenge is the third, and it is one sporting event that has done nothing but grow in popularity since its inception. The fact that this year’s event will be filmed by a TV crew from Search For Hurt proves its success.
For those seeking some local inter-generational rivalry, Mayor Paul Harmon and the Member for Northern Tablelands, Adam Marshall, will go head to head.
Lennon said the challenge now depended largely on timing.
“The event’s actually seeded, so the faster teams start at the beginning and therefore the teams don’t run over each other,” Lennon said.
“And the teams don’t get to have a rest in between stations, waiting for a station to become free, so there’s no stopping and starting and it’s just one continuous race.”
Lennon said the toughest event was when competitors returned from the six kilometre run.
“Then they have to do a tyre flip and a prowler push. The lactic acid starts to build up from the run and those two events, especially the prowler push, really starts to burn the legs. And the grass is nice and green so it’s harder to push,” Lennon said, with perhaps a little too much delight in her voice.
