› Staff take on muddy challenge

Running six kilometres uphill and over obstacles, including ‘mud fields’, is hard enough while wearing the usual active wear but some Christchurch Hospital staff did it in fancy dress as they took part in the Mud Sweat and Tears Challenge recently. The annual event at the Christchurch Adventure Park takes participants through a challenging course full of obstacles and of course, mud, with the option of doing it in costumes. Clinical Team Co-ordinators John Crozier, Lisa Jones and Delwyn Rattray, Enrolled Nurse Katie Gillies and Duty Nurse Manager Geoff Brew, were joined by Registered Nurse (Pegasus 24 Hour Surgery) Nicola Ferguson and Personal Trainer Mike Orme (husband of Clinical Team Co-ordinator Beth Orme who was unable to take part). Lisa, out of a few hundred competitors, was picked as best-dressed female competitor. “We were definitely not troubling the gym-junkies who were in it to win it,” says John. “We came near the tail of the field but, as we have done on two previous occasions, enjoyed the event immensely, all crossed the finish line laughing together, and gratefully accepted a can of the sponsor’s product.”

Clinical Team Co-ordinator Lisa Jones in the Wonder Woman costume which she wore at the event