{"id":6824,"date":"2018-06-17T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2020-01-11T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:56:27","slug":"ocr-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/ocr-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"OCR World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend was the Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) World Enduro Championships or more commonly known as the OCR World Championships. Competitors ran the 10km course with 30 obstacles in it and tried to knock over as many laps as they could in a 24 hour period.  This year I was chasing Shammes AlShamsi, the only entrant from the United Arab Emirates around the course.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Race<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This has to be the toughest and most brutal race that pops up on my calendar. Whilst I think that the people who do 24mtb races and 24hr trail runs are crazy I believe (and please correct me if I am wrong) that these competitors can find a rhythm and lock into it. Obstacle course racers have to break that rhythm every 40m or so to complete a different obstacle. They do a huge variety of obstacles such as rope climbs, crawling in the mud under barbed wire, scaling walls and rope traverses across the creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chasing one competitor around the course is a little bit awkward as the course is so spread out. I found the best place was around the start finish area where the greatest amount of obstacles were found making it easy to jump between one  and another. I didn’t manage to get all the obstacles I still managed to get a good selection of shots with Shammes and and managed to grab a few other folks as I was waiting for Shammes to get back around to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n