PAUL Collins, of Bude RATS, took part in the city adventure race 'Men's Health Survival of the Fittest' 10k with 16 obstacles.

He said "The organisers promised we would get wet and we did. Besides the normal climbing over, under and through cars, walls, building sites etc, we had to do an 800 metre steeple chase half way through the run, we crawled through ice followed by mud then a dowsing with a fire hose, just to be sure we were clean - we had to then jump into freezing cold water before completing the last two obstacles the last of which is the infamous 8ft wall.

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