Hurdles, fences, walls, and ditches are designed to ratchet up the frustration quotient, the exhaustion, and the determination of the runners. As the name implies, the 15-kilometer foot race tasks participants with overcoming numerous physical (and mental) challenges, all while maintaining a competitive speed. Hulette and Mehnert joined more than 2,400 athletes from 60 countries in the Obstacle Course Race World Championship in Keveldon Hatch, England. If anything, it seems to have whet their appetite for something just a little more difficult. Their coursework at Tech has tested their limits more than a few times, but it's never wiped the smiles off their faces. They actually seem to get itchy if a task seems too do-able. One of the obstacles in the course put Jared Mehnert's upper body strength to the test.įourth-year aerospace engineering students Erica Hulette and Jared Mehnert naturally gravitate toward challenges. But nothing could wipe the smiles off their faces. Acworth native Erica Hulette and Ohio native Jared Mehnert had to scrape off the mud after finishing the 15-K OCR World Championship Course.
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