Extreme Corporate Challenge I

Extreme Corporate Challenge I - The Desert (cont'd)

Day 2 - Idracowra to Lillee Creek

Day 2 saw a 5km time trial by one member from each team - the winner being UECOMM. After this the group did a 75km stage in the morning, temperature was 29 degrees, strong wind and most teams took 6 hours to complete. It was very, very taxing and it also tested the team dynamics. In the early stages of the track it included some corrugations and sand dunes, which put a huge emphasis on the overall endurance of the teams. The afternoon stage consisted of a 14km ride to camp with each team convinced it was going to be a 25km ride. Some teams opted to complete the entire 2 stages with little rest between due to the heavy demands placed upon them.

Some of the teams obviously were not up to the challenge and they didn’t finish as a team of 4, which is a prerequisite for a successful completion or they get penalised by dropping 10 points. You are therefore only as strong as your weakest team member. Most of the teams are now beginning to work on the fact that to survive in this event and to meet the challenge of completion they need to work out how to focus on the present and not the future. There is also a lot of levels of insecurities which have been created by today’s stage. They were not told the distance, so they didn’t know what they were up for. The reason for this is to keep them in their insecure zone. It’s an interesting observation to see corporate executives who are constantly supported by information and technology to deal with a totally different environment. Some of the teams are beginning to correlate the philosophy of the event to what children go through in general throughout their childhood.