Mud Challenge organisers Rodger McBrydie and Dan Goodwin with some muddy runners. Photo / Jamie Troughton / Dscribe Media
Mud Challenge organisers Rodger McBrydie and Dan Goodwin with some muddy runners. Photo / Jamie Troughton / Dscribe Media
Entries are open for the first-ever Tauranga Boys' College Mud Run Challenge.
The inaugural fundraising event for the school's rugby programme will see competitors tackle a 6km mud course that will include cargo net crawls, a mudslide and a muddy tunnel among other challenges.
The event will start and finishat Pahoia Domain on August 26.
The college's long-serving PE teacher Rodger McBrydie and former Bay of Plenty Steamers blindside Dan Goodwin are organising the event.
Rodger McBrydie (left) and Dan Goodwin at the site of the inaugural Tauranga Boys' College Mud Challenge near Pahoia. Photo / Jamie Troughton / Dscribe Media
The college planned to create a hardship fund to subsidise or pay in full rugby related costs for students.
McBrydie said funds raised would go towards ensuring that money would not stop their boys playing rugby.
"Money shouldn't be a reason for students to miss out on all the awesome things sport has to offer.
"That's also why we picked the Mud Challenge as a fundraiser - as the name suggests, it'll be a challenge, it will be exhausting and it will probably be uncomfortable, but we fully expect everyone to cross the finish line with a massive grin on their face."
The main 6km course will take competitors across mudflats near Pahoia Domain, through paddocks and channels.
