X Runner Water Wipeout – Nottingham
National Water Sports Centre: Nottingham, NG12 2LU
Obstacle Course
Saturday, July 7th, 2018
Fairly Tough
5km or 10km
About this event
The Water Wipeout includes over fifty obstacles including water slides, tunnels, hurdles, swamps, pontoons, cargo nets, balance beams and an assault course! Water Wipeout is the WETTEST fun run in the world of obstacle racing – so if you are remotely aqua phobic then this will really challenge you to the core!
Hosted at the world class venue National Water Sports Centre conveniently based in Nottinghamshire. We selected this venue specifically based on it’s amazing attributes, such as the ideal location in the centre of England makes it accessible from most areas. Capacity – this venue can cope really well with literally thousands on site at any one time as it plays host to some of the UK’s most notable sporting events. There are plenty of areas to change, shower and get refreshments too. But we mostly selected this particular venue for it’s plentiful supply of the wet stuff. Last year we introduced the white water course as an obstacle where you have to jump into the fast flowing water and boy did everyone enjoy that experience!
Essential Information
Chip Timing Yes
Min Age 15
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10km Obstacle Races, 5km Obstacle Races, Midlands, Nottingham, Obstacle Races, X Runner
2 reviews for “X Runner Water Wipeout – Nottingham”
This was a really enjoyable race, the conditions were perfect for a race based around the water and the race was well organised, as I’ve come to expect from the Xrunner team.
The bling from this race was also as I’ve come to expect from Xrunner a good quality technical t-shirt, medal and gym bag containing some post race food and drink.
If there are any criticism that I could make it would probably be a lack of mud at places around the course but it’s nice to have a variety; but other than that there isn’t much that I’d change. If you want mud their other events more than make up for this – check out Wild Warrior in Derby.
I would recommend this race to anyone who can swim; I managed to complete this race without being competent at any recognised swimming stroke so even a poor swimmer like myself can manage the event in safety.
X-Runner Water Wipeout was a well organised event, this year feeling more geared towards newbies and fun-runners but still had a few show stopper obstacles to impress. It is the ideal event to take a friend that you are trying to introduce to Obstacle Course Racing and Mud Running. With the option to complete one or two 5km laps and varied difficulty obstacles it is an ideal first event, however the lack of timing and the multi lap course probably makes it less suitable for the “hardcore” racers out there.