Tick Tock Ten: A compelling blood sweat and tears account of competing in one of the toughest sporting endurance challenges in the world by Duffy Gerry

Author:Duffy, Gerry [Duffy, Gerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: triathlon, cyling, extreme sport, deca, Running, Ireland, fitness, ironman, Enduroman, swimming
ISBN: 9780957207233
Published: 2014-09-15T21:00:00+00:00

By the fifth day that 10 metre descent at the bottom of the run course was starting to put the fear of God into me.

Sometimes it took an age to descend what was in reality barely the length of a bus. Often at the top, I would stop deliberately so as to plot a routing that would offer the least amount of pain. For some of those times I had to adopt a mindset of a soldier plotting a passage across a minefield. Any momentum on that lap was temporarily brought to a standstill. To amuse myself, I calculated on one occasion that night that I only had to do it 133 more times.

After the descent we were hit by a brief ambush of rocky and undulating ground for about 20 metres. Anyone taller than 5’5 (all of us) then had to duck under some extensive overhanging foliage where we were plunged briefly into darkness. By now we were at the rear of the lake and at the lowest point of the entire run course. From here we had to ascend 100 feet or more to reach the highest point. Whilst it was graded, it still sapped energy from every competitor.

One positive feature of the route was the immediate access to three separate toilets which were on the course itself and which were used often. I will save you any more detail on this except to say that one of these was a permanent ecological toilet which we passed every 11 to 15 minutes. If the door was open I would have sprinted half a mile to avoid hitting the odour that it emitted.

From there the climb back to the top section was slow. Half way up, there was a brief diversion where we had to cross over the finish line and onwards to the grassy terrain I mentioned before. That was a tough section as it began with a two foot uphill step. From there the jagged, hardened and broken ground of about 60 metres was as welcoming on our limbs as a butcher’s knife.

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