This weekend was Ghost Squad's third outing to Mudnificent 7, the OCR Expo. It always holds a special place in our hearts because it was the first race we ever attended outside of Tough Guy, where the sound of five hours of pounding war drums made the OCR community realise there was something not qu...
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--- I have backdated this post to the weekend of Tough Guy - 29th of January 2017. In reality, I didn't start writing it until about April and then ignored it until July. --- There was a fallout after Tough Guy. Hell, there was a fallout BEFORE Tough Guy when Mr. Mouse hinted that it might not a...
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Every January, over 1000 people fail to cross the finish line of Tough Guy. Normally, it’s because of the cold: even on relatively warm years, the combination of water, wind and exposure cripples hundreds. “It’s not cold enough for hypothermia” St. John’s Ambulance service tells me ever...
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Hi, I’m Ed. Some of you might recognise me from Tough Guy; I take the warm-up, hammer on stuff, and leap out at unsuspecting folk. I bellow constantly and drink a lot of rum. In short, I’m hard to miss. I don’t work for Tough Guy, I’m a volunteer. If I wasn’t smashing and bellowi...
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Little did we know, when we picked ourselves up off the floor of a barn on the last day of July 2016, that we were about to witness the final Tough Guy Nettle Warrior of all time. Luckily, Ghost Squad go about every event as if it is the last event on Earth - and we tore it up as best we possibly...
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Last weekend, Mr. Mouse deployed Ghost Squad at Nuclear Rush. This was the first time the Ghosts had been unleashed outside the borders of Tough Guy - making it a very special occasion INDEED! Mr. Mouse then proceeded to charge up the ninja ramp, and conquer the Death Slide with James Parish - ch...
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After 96 intense hours, the days leading up to and including Tough Guy 2016 have finally released me from their carnival of madness. I don't have the words to describe them. I really don't. Possibly because I am physically and mentally exhausted, but possibly also because the descriptive potentia...
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How does the time pass so quickly? I've barely chiselled the blood, sweat and beers from my pants and suddenly it's Tough Guy all over again. This time, Nettle Warrior - the summer version, for those who don't fancy a near-death experience... For me, the weekend was particularly special becau...
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