Dane Tilse shuffled aimlessly around the beachside car park. Each movement caused multiple muscles to spasm in pain.
He was soaked with blood, sweat, rain and seawater. Utter exhaustion was etched in every line on his face. But he was still smiling.
The giant Canberra Raiders prop had just undergone the most searching physical and mental test of his life and succeeded.
He and teammates Marc Herbert and Daniel Vidot had just completed a gruelling 90km adventure race.
In a little over 23 hours they'd run, swum, paddled, hiked, ridden and dragged their way through some of the South Coast's toughest terrain.
They'd battled extreme weather fluctuations ranging from 43-degree heat, to gale-force winds, to pouring rain.
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