The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Laura Hudson likes a challenge, but she’s having to keep mum about the outcome of one of them for now.
Laura tackling the first obstacle – the Quintuple Steps – on Ninja Warrior UK
The Donington 27-year-old has competed in the current series of ITV hit show Ninja Warrior UK, being screened on Saturday nights.
Her effort over the demanding obstacle course, which finishes with an attempt to “beat the wall” – a run up a 4m high curve – was filmed last August.
Laura can’t reveal how she got on and doesn’t know when she will feature – but the fact she got a tattoo afterwards to mark her achievement might suggest she was pleased with how she fared!
The former Spalding High School student said: “Although I will be introduced as working at Alton Towers and living in Derby on the programme, as this was filmed months ago, things have since changed, and I have actually given up everything to move back to Donington so I can specifically train for two months in the area for my mammoth 400km cycle challenge.”
That is in March across Vietnam and Cambodia, covering the distance in six days. Laura needs to raise £3,000 for the PSP Association (progressive supranuclear palsy), a small charity supporting two rare and incurable diseases, PSP and CBD (corticobasal degeneration).
She said: “It’s a charity that’s very personal to me, as my grandad, Poppa, sadly lost his six-year fight with PSP eight years ago.”
Over the last year Laura has raised over £2,000 through doing Tough Mudders, 50-mile cycling sportives and the 150-mile Coast to Coast cycle from Whitehaven to Tynemouth.
This year, she’s lined up lots more fundraisers, including Europe’s Toughest Mudder at Belvoir Castle – as many laps of a five-mile course as possible between midnight and 8am on May 13 – and The Way Of The Roses (170-mile cycle ride from Morecambe to Bridlington in three days).
