Getting into the Rat Race

Tom Sutcliffe, an Associate from our corporate team, recently completed the Edinburgh Rat Race. Racing as a pair along with Nick Grantham of SmartFitness (see Nick’s blog for a more comprehensive commentary http://nickgrantham.blogspot.com ), they completed 2.5 hrs of running-based orienteering on the Saturday evening, followed by 8 hours of mountain bike orienteering on the Sunday. Each event consisted of planning a route around the city of Edinburgh (and its suburbs) with the objective of reaching as many checkpoints as possible within the allotted time. Sounds easy?, well each checkpoint came with a different physical or mental challenge ranging from cycling down the infamous Warrister Steps to completing a Dragons Den presentation with 2 minutes of preparation time!

Tom and Nick finally completed the 2-day marathon event at 5pm on Sunday, finishing 30th out of 120 teams. Not bad for a first attempt but both have resolved to return next year to challenge the top 10!