Ciara Cassidy

I have a short story called Hope's Rainbow available on Shortbread (a great online resource for anyone interested in reading and/or writing short stories).

http://www.shortbreadstories.co.uk/story/view/hopes_rainbow/#axzz23SdoyrjN

The story was inspired by my husband and the rest of the team he ran Mud Madness with. Their team raised a few thousand pounds for Marie Curie and all four of them completed the run, which is a bit of a mixture between cross country and an obstacle course, all designed to get the competitors as saturated in mud as possible. These are a few photos we took on the day and underneath them is a link to the website, which contains better photographs and videos of the course and some of the 1000 people who took part that day.

Mud Madness, Co Armagh

A tanker used to suck up water from muddy streams and spray it over runners (and those supporters of us foolish enough to stand too near ) 

More pictures and videos on the Mud Madness Website:

http://www.mud-madness.com/media.htm