The Mad March Mare is an event held at Hexham Race Course and is a 10k obstacle course, which is held on the first Saturday in March.The first event was held in 2015 and Team SPARK decided to enter a team. There were 8 of us who took part and for some of us were the toughest challenge we had faced on our health & fitness journey. The team did great and many faced their fears head on. 2016 saw the team grow to 12 as some of our clients were inspired by the previous year’s team.
Then came 2017, wow this year was just unreal we entered a team of 35 and the course was the toughest yet with an increase in the obstacles to 30. Our team of trainers had also grown to 4 who all took part and managed to stay with their group the whole way to help support and encourage each one of our clients to get around the course face their biggest fears/challenges and cross that finish line.
All 35 completed the course and to say we are proud of how many of our clients entered and completed the course is an understatement. Some clients and even some our trainers hadn’t done anything like this before. For some of us there were obstacles to be conquered that hadn’t been the previous 2 years, to this being achieved on the 3rd year was fantastic.
With 2018 MMM bring cancelled due to the ‘Beast from the East’ the organisers made this years MMM even tougher with 40 obstacles. Team SPARK absolutely smashed it again and even though it was challenging we had lots of laughs along the way.
We are super proud of everyone!
