{"id":9532,"date":"2024-12-07T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T13:00:05","slug":"bestial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2024\/12\/07\/bestial-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestial race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_7072-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Bestial race!\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9546\" \/>With a colleague, I did the <a href=\"https:\/\/ocrbestial.com\/\">Bestial race<\/a> today. He convinced me, and I actually assumed I would beat him easily, thus having a fun story for the coming months. The race took place in Arucas, a nearby town. 6 KM running and a few obstacles. At the start, it immediately became clear why my variant was called &#8216;hell&#8217;. Directly through pits and small hills, holes with mud, crawling under low bridges, jumping and diving, pushing tires while crawling, etc. Before the running started, I was already exhausted. The running afterward also turned out to be uphill, with wet shoes and socks, along a small path. There were also a few obstacles here: carrying a 20-kilo stone ball over an extra route, carrying a jerry can with 20 liters of water over yet another extra route, climbing over a two-meter wall, and several obstacles where you had to grab objects with your hands to avoid touching the ground and still &#8216;climb&#8217; about 6 meters forward. Super difficult. Right before the end there were another two huge containers with water, and a lots of other obstacles, and then we finally arrived at the finish. What a relief. We did it!<\/p>\n<p>After the race we rushed to another event, a birthday party for Alan. I was physically present, but I can&#8217;t remember much of it. I do remember being dead tired wondering why I never realised that &#8216;hell&#8217;-difficulty must be something pretty difficult and undesirable. I wondered why I ever signed up for this&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a colleague, I did the Bestial race today. He convinced me, and I actually assumed I would beat him easily, thus having a fun story for the coming months. The race took place in Arucas, a nearby town. 6 KM running and a few obstacles. At the start, it immediately became clear why my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}