More than 450 students are braving the rain today for the first annual ‘Little Mudder’ at Otway.
School District 57, the Aboriginal Education Department and Canadian Tire are have brought students from across the District, as far as Valemount and McBride.
Canadian Tire Community Relations Manager Jane Hilder says it will take kids about an hour to finish the 5.7km course. “There is several obstacles set up from ‘Mud Sweat and Tears’ that was this weekend. So they’ve just kind of jimmy rigged it so it is a bit more kid friendly.”
“There is mud pits, medicine ball carries, they are going to get muddy as possible.”
Hilder says the idea has been in the works at the School District for a couple years now, and they were happy to step in as a sponsor.
“So we’ve already done the hockey program, and we wanted to be able to support something that would run in the summer as well as a legacy ongoing project.”
Hilder say funding came in through during the Canucks Training Camp which was held in PG this year, that they were able to use help get the project off the ground.
Next year she says they will be aiming to grow the event to 850 kids.
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