Frag Out! Magazine
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Maciej Tough as a Viking When I got a proposal to take part in the Luminox Spec Ops Challenge 2017 powered by Tough Viking from the Frag Out! Guys I did not give thought even for a while. I have already had completed two Runmageddons, 6 clicks of Runmageddon Recruit Night Edition along the Modlin Fortress, two 12km Classics on my record, so I was more or less aware what that was about. I am not the youngest lad, I do not want to tell you a load of crap, but I am still pretty fit.. At least, I practice Aikido for several years, CrossFit from two years, I run (but rather not too fast;)) the approximately 12km distances, so I thought that even though I will not beat a record of the route, but I will probably cope to finish it. Only afterwards (perhaps already in Stockholm) I found out, that it is a 15 kilometers run with 40 obstacles to overcome... Probably, my friends forgot to tell me about it (or maybe they did not forget?), but what were I sup- posed to do? No matter how you look at it, it is rather a great adventure and a considerable challenge. The run itself differed significantly from this what I had already known. My former starts were rather away from people (Modlin Fortress, Myślenice hills in Poland), and here we were running at the very heart of Stockholm in Kungliga Djurgården, that is in the beautiful forest and park, full of the hillocks, channels, small ponds/lakes, a little bit similar to the Central Park in NYC. The certain stages of the route led by the ordinary, park alleyways what makes us running almost among the families who were taking a stroll, sometimes with a view for a full of the yachts mari- na, and another time for a café at the channel shore. What is more interesting – wherever the route was demarcated by the bands on the grass, the organizers meticulously mowed the lawns between the bands. Finally, it is hard to run on the high grass, isn't it? It is also rather visible that the Tough Viking has great budget. Most of the obstacles is constructed on the basis of the aluminum (partially they are prepared especially for this event, and partially they are adopted for the race needs, such as a half of the skateboard half-pipe), what REPORT