# Proof for school that we exercise.

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Posted by Kayne on January 12, 2021 at 11:27:50

So, Charlie and I have been having a pretty normal timetable of school lessons via Zoom and on-line assignments and tutorials since school “failed” to open as expected. Most of our teachers have been working from home but a few who are associated with the boarding house have been working from their regular classrooms as they live on site anyway and there are a number of boys who were unable to travel home for Christmas so stayed over the holiday.

This afternoon our timetable said it was “sport” so our PE teacher had suggested that everyone go out and do some rigorous exercise and film it so that we could all show what we had done. We debated over lunch whether to just stay in the pool and swim and dive as our exercise but decided that would be a bit boring – Charlie even suggested that we could film ourselves swimming a few lengths and then repeat that on a loop; who could tell? One length and back of the pool looks exactly the same as any other, he said! - we decided that that was a bit too much like cheating. In the end cousin Tom and his partner Simon (neither were working today) suggested that we change into our school rugby kit and go and do the obstacle course and they would film us. It was warmer today (10 or 11 degrees and raining) so it seemed like a good option.

Our school rugby kit consists of navy shorts and either a navy or white shirt, both are made of fairly robust thick cotton material and we’ve always enjoyed getting wet and muddy in it so the prospect of doing the obstacle course was fun. I suggested that Tom and Simon use our phones to film as it’s proved relatively easy to download and send video from them in the past or to actually play the videos for others to see, but Simon suggested they use the dash cameras they both had for their cars as the battery life was better and the picture quality was higher definition as well.

So we set of jogging up to the woods and the swamp area and onto the obstacle course with Tom and Simon filming from their quad bikes as we ran. It was raining steadily so we were getting damp by the time we got there what with the rain and splashing through any puddles we encountered along the way. The first obstacle is the muddy ditch crawl which was still fairly wet from when Chris had flooded the area from the stream, so we both got properly soaked as we crawled through that and very muddy as well.

The monkey bars were next. I’ve never been very good at getting the rhythm of swinging and grabbing the next bar and usually only manage three or four bars at most before falling in the muddy water below. And so it proved this time. First go I managed three bars and my hand slipped of the last bar as I swung forward, so I splashed into the muddy water almost on my back, no chance to get my feet down properly, so I ended up getting completely submerged and clambered out soaked to the skin and muddy all over. Apart from getting mud up my nose it felt great – I do like the feel of rugby shorts and shirt heavy with mud and water. Charlie – the show off – managed to get all the way along the monkey bars on his first attempt. I got one bar further on my second attempt but again lost my grip as I grabbed the next bar and splashed down, on my feet this time, but still got freshly soaked as the muddy water is over waste deep. Charlie was behind me on that go, so as he approached I grabbed his feet and pulled him in with me, making sure that he was completely submerged as well. We splashed around trying to duck each other after that for a few minutes until Tom called for us to have one final go. I actually made it all the way across this time, as did Charlie.

Next obstacle was the walking along the logs (long logs laid horizontally about three feet off the ground). This is quite easy and provided it is not too slippery there is little danger of falling off if your sense of balance is OK. It is not very helpful if you are soaking wet though as dripping clothes makes the logs more slippery.

The most difficult obstacle was next. A series of sets of four logs (all four touching each other) standing upright across a muddy pond. Three of each set of logs act as stepping stones so their tops are about six inches above the surface, the fourth is much taller – seven or eight feet above the surface - and can be grabbed and held onto. The difficulty is that the sets of logs are a long way apart, more than a grown man’s stride, and the tall one obstructs simple access to the others, making it much more than just a simple long step or jump from one set to the next. The muddy pond is a couple of feet deep with soft mud mud to cushion the almost inevitable fall.

Charlie went first and made it to the second set before misjudging his next leap and falling flat on his face with a big splash. I made it to the third set before falling in. We had several goes but never got further than the we had on our first attempt. Chris is the only person I know to have made it all the way across six sets without falling in.

The final obstacle was the zip wire from a platform about ten feet off the ground down to a wet and muddy crash zone, no good calling it a landing zone as there is no way you can stay on your feet and not get properly soaked again.

After all that we went back to the muddy swamp and finished by jumping in there and wading across, emerging even muddier than we already were. Tom then suggested that we “run” back to the house via the stream. He and Simon filmed as we waded along the stream, ducking ourselves in the deeper bits to get something like clean and as we emerged at the end of the lawns below the house, the film ended with us running back to the garage yard and being hosed down before heading for a well earned hot shower whilst Tom and Simon went toi retrieve the quadbikes.

We’ve spent the rest of the afternoon editing the videos down to about ten minutes ready to show them tomorrow to our PE teacher and the rest of our class. It will be interesting to see if anyone else managed to get as wet and muddy as we did or have as much enjoyment doing so.

Follow Ups:

- Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Ry 18:45:56 1/12/2021 (1)
  - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 21:57:33 1/12/2021 (0)
- Re: Proof for school that we exercise. wetchas 13:16:35 1/12/2021 (13)
  - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 14:48:53 1/12/2021 (12)
    - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Ben 17:27:44 1/12/2021 (11)
      - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 22:08:34 1/12/2021 (10)
        - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Ben 08:07:49 1/15/2021 (2)
          - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 09:12:27 1/15/2021 (1)
            - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Wetnboy 20:25:40 1/16/2021 (0)
        - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Wiley 20:21:38 1/14/2021 (1)
          - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 19:01:38 1/15/2021 (0)
        - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Ry 23:47:57 1/12/2021 (4)
          - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 08:34:05 1/13/2021 (3)
            - Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Wetnboy 05:21:02 1/14/2021 (2)
              - oops - typo Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Wetnby 05:30:22 1/14/2021 (1)
                - Re: oops - typo Re: Proof for school that we exercise. Kayne 11:48:39 1/14/2021 (0)

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