My Secret, My Bully, My Mates by Miss L

I run towards the log and take as big a step as my legs can go and continue running to the top.

I takea running leap off the end over a ditch that is so murky, I don’t want to know what is in there, and then ontoa rope to climb down.

I hit the dirt running, sprinting toward a cargo net that leads up to a platform that looks more like a treehouse fort than a training center with its green shingled roof and tree branch railings.

The cargo net was hard to get through, it was hung loosely to make it more challenging and the netting was set wide so my legs kept slipping through the holes.

It felt like it took forever to climb.

Once I reach the platform, I take a second to look at what is next and to catch my breath.

This one is going to suck.

It’s a single rope bridge, like the one I noticed before further down the course, only this one has wooden poles hung vertically every 5 feet or so keeping the two parallel ropes at a certain distance apart and something you have to get around without falling.

I do the logical thing first and try to jump and reach the top rope.

Of course it’s set at 7 or 8 feet, so even stretched tiptoe to finger tips, I can’t reach both.

It’s too wobbly to just attempt to run sol sit on the edge of the treehouse platform, wrap my legs and arms around the rope and free hang under the foot rope like a sloth.

start shimmying across before I waste any

have to adjust my hands and then my feet to get around

from where I’m standing and it’s probably another eight to ten foot drop

cargo net, so! could trust fall into it, but that drop is

stiff, there hasn’t been any pain and

as close to one of the ladder uprights as I can and sit on the

as much as possible and koala climb down

down far enough to jump to the net, landing in a ball so

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is no more than

a platform that is about 20 feet

sarcasm, I will have about three steps, but there isn’t a wall to stop me if I over

a deep breath and just go for

land and tuck and roll, almost falling over

a little

arm and one leg hung off when I

life for a second

and see another platform under the one I just left. Here we go