What do the Ladies and Gentlemen of Charlton Life think of this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4730102/Women-injured-Tough-Mudder-share-painful-tales.htmlI have been absolutely stunned by this article and its content.
Have a read and let me know your thoughts...
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Fuck off.
Yours
Women
People need to take responsibility for themselves and realise that an obstacle course is going to be fucking dangerous, unless it's designed for kids or is an Its a Knockout style inflatable one
Everyone knows what they are signing up too and if you take a look on YouTube it is there for all to see.
It is a physical participation sport, people get injured.
Seriously WTF?
It's like it was written in the 18th Century.
Just to confirm I race these kind of races 3 or 4 times a year and am NOT on £63,000 a year or middle class
Actually, no scrub that, it's just bizarre that people do this stuff at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
Great doc on Netflix too
"When Olivia Jones signed up for a Tough Mudder — one of the increasing number of obstacle course races held throughout the country — she knew it would be challenge. She even resigned herself to some minor cuts, bruises and bumps along the way.
But she had no inkling of the devastation her decision to take part would cause her."
"Thanks to gender equality in the workplace and constant messages of empowerment, many young women believe that whatever a man can do, they can do, too — including gruelling physical endurance feats."
'‘Women definitely need to be more careful. Generally, their knee ligaments are less protected and hence more vulnerable. Also, many women tend to have a slightly knock-kneed posture and internally rotated hips, which also puts strain on the knees.
‘On top of this, the strength of a woman’s ligaments is affected by their hormones and so this is affected by the menstrual cycle. Ligaments become more lax during the menstrual cycle, which means the knee is most probably more vulnerable to injury.’'
"Thanks to jumping into filthy water, I ended up with a horrible kidney infection that had to be treated with antibiotics. I took three weeks to recover. I’ve found out since that lots of other female contestants get the same thing. It’s almost an unspoken thing."
Note how all of these are women specific...
The article basically reads to me and others in the OCR world as saying women are not conditioned for these sorts of races which is BS.
Train properly and the likelihood of injury is heavily reduced.
Plus don't swallow muddy water - That's just stupid.
It's bizarre that people let themselves get obese and diseased costing the NHS money, time and resources. (Usually for a far more drawn out and permanent time and cost than a broken limb etc).
If you train right, you're a lot less likely to get injured. If you don't train at all you deserve what you get.
So the majority who take part don't earn that amount, but still, overwhelming.
But when I was doing my marathon training, and got injured, and when I actually did the marathons, I recognised any injury incurred by me was down to me, unless there was a clear breach of reasonable safeguards from the event organisers, like them releasing venomous snakes or a herd of wildebeest onto the course as we staggered on our way.
It seems to me at times that some people feel they must be able to do difficult things other people do, without having any sense they have a responsibility to themselves to think about whether they can and should do it. Then they want to tell the whole world or blame someone else if it goes a bit wrong.
Luckily for me, I had the sort of formative education that enabled me to leave school knowing that if I jumped up to my mullet into muddy water, it might not be good for me if I swallowed the stuff. That's why I stopped swimming in the local sewage treatment plant and went on to avoid obstacle courses.
Clearly this woman's teachers failed her. She should sue them.
Originally thought the article was full of sexist tripe, but actually, it's just a headline that sucks you in but actually makes a lot of sense. they're based on army style training boot camps and it's not meant to be a 'fun' run but a challenge. Train for it.
The article is a classic piece of spurious extrapolation - find half a dozen out of the thousands of women who enter these events, all of whom may or may not be genetically, or physically predisposed to various injuries for a whole host of reason unrelated to gender, and extrapolate out to say that it's unsuitable for all women, while also ignoring how many men get injured doing one of these things.
Daily Mail 'science' reporting at its best.
Here's me struggling to get up it as part of a group...
and here's the ramp...
But instead you got your front teeth knocked out.
That'll teach you, except it won't, you big crybaby.
Yes it's quite possibly dangerous. So if you can't face the possible consequences, don't do it.