Mud glorious mud at Kick Ass Endurance challenge at Weston Park
Waist-high mud, slippery walls to scale and an American football team to get past were all part of the course at an annual mud run.
Competitors turned out in the fog yesterday to get more than just their hands dirty on a gruelling 10k assault course around Weston Park near Shifnal.
The proceeds from the Kick Ass Endurance obstacle challenge went to the Fire Fighters charity, but many were running for a range of causes close to their heart.
Organiser Jamie Mills said more than 600 people took part, around 100 of them children.
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"It has gone better than what we had expected," he said. "But we have put in more obstacles this year, more challenges.
"We've got a barbed wire crawl-under trench, some massive walls to get over - and the Amos Brewery brook, which is waist high with thick mud, trainer-losing stuff, which it takes people at least 10 minutes to get through."
After enduring that, runners then had to run the final gauntlet of a muddy lake and a space-hopper stretch, before having to dodge tackles by American football team the Sandwell Steelers.
The Steelers, based at Tipton Sports Academy in the West Midlands, are national champions at the moment and asked to come along and be a human 'obstacle'.
Paul Richards, from Aston, near Wellington, Shropshire was the first adult across the finish line at the Kick Ass Endurance obstacle challenge at Weston Park this weekend.
Paul, who works as a foundry operator, is a veteran obstacle course racer who has been entering such events over the past couple of years - frequently winning them - and this year's annual Weston Park event is another he can add to his list.
