Sonia Foote

I love trying new things. When I reflect on all my years of racing, something that was so exciting in the beginning was that every event or discipline was new to me and, I was often out of my comfort zone. Thankfully people keep creating new events for me to try 😆
Last weekend I raced my first @deadlydozen_nz in Tauranga. It was so choice.

A fitness race, a little like HYROX in that the functional fitness labours follow a run. This time 12 x 400m runs on the athletics track and 12 labours set inside the centre of the track - farmers carry, deadlift, lunges, snatches, burpee broad jumps, goblet squats, front carry, push press, bear crawl, clean and press and devil's press. I haven't been able to do any overhead work due to my disc herniations so I knew I was going to be really weak on those labours, and my arm is still weak due to neural misfires and inhibitions .... push press was absolutely my death 😆. I did run ok and I am really enjoying it too. Three of our four munchkins were with me and I am grateful for Amelia, 💕 looking after her little brothers while I tried to finish as fast as possible 😆 so we could go to the mall.

Have signed up for another go in Auckland in May 🤙🏼
Thank you for the 📷@diegomalheiross and Amelia 🌻