There’s nowt doing in January we thought!
Let’s dive into the Squid Games for Runners challenge. We signed up, I had to then urgently watch Squid Games. I’m a bit of a bugger at resisting watching stuff that’s super popular so I hadn’t seen it before I hit enter BUT I did get the premise of it all.
Watching done.
Let the games commence.
It was an ace community challenge put on by This Messy Happy (>>they have an ace YouTube Channel here<< )
It brought about a weekly challenge that dropped into our inboxes via email and we had to submit the results of our attempts in time of the deadline. Miss the deadline and you were out, fail the challenge and you were out.
No runners died in the making of the series (unlike in the programme #brutal).
So, we set off;
Week One – Running Man delivered the message that we were playing “Green Light.” The rules were, run 2 x 1km back to back and have the times within 3 seconds of each other. So the first 1km needed to be within 3 seconds of the 2nd kilometre. I’m not usually ace at pacing, I’m not metronomic. BUT I nailed it. I set off on a loop locally and concentrated so much that my head hurt 😂
Week Two – For Game 2 we had to pick a number 😳 Little did we know why we were picking that number! Triangle, Circle, Star, Umbrella matched the numbers. We had to use the app Strava, which tracks your run/route/stats and draw the shape on our run. None of the lines could overlap, it needed to look like the thing – yeah we had rules. Jeez! It was a good job Johnny had a methodical approach to this! We went to our local track so that we could use natural markers to get a sense of our picture we were creating.
Week Three – Running Man gave us an Eikiden which is a Japanese concept of running. We played a team game this time. We were put into teams of 10 and we needed to run a marathon between the 10 of us. Each runner could do no less than 2kms and no more than 7kms, it had to be continuous. We were pitted against other teams and it was simple – the quickest team won. We worked out that our fastest runners would go further. There were personal bests/records all over the place. Downhill was also the tactic of our team. Get to a good downhill route and run as fast as you can.
Week Four – Loosing your marbles. We went from team mates to competitors. One person based against the other who in the previous week were on the same team. It was a run, of any distance, closest heart rate to the number the Running Man decided in advanced was the winner. This week I just trained as normal and then decided on the Sunday night which one I was going to submit.
Week Five – much more luck! Over or under. We were ordered in a spreadsheet. We had to run one single km. Running man picked a time to start us off and then each person thereafter needed to be either over or under the time that went before. You had no idea what time the starter time was and then just over or under as we headed down the spreadsheet (which was also randomly) selected. Here’s the hurdle I feel at 😭
Week Six – 4kms every hour for as many hours as you can. The most hours logged was the winner. Oh me, oh my! I’d have bloody loved that game.
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