Gary as a fully qualified military adventure training instructor, teaching Climbing, Canoeing, Skiing and Mountaineering during his military career, knows the benefits of the great outdoors. To this end on the second Sunday of each month he organises a variety of away days to get ODFC members out, in order to try new exciting things. These can be physical or non physical activities but always great fun.

Activities planned for the future are:
Hill Walking in the lakes
Go Kart Racing
Paint Balling
Wine Tasting

Annually we also organise week long adventures and in the past this has included groups heading off to ski in Bavaria and Italy, hill walking in Morocco and rock climbing in Spain and closer to home in the Lake District Wales and Scotland. Other events have seen smaller groups sailing in Greece. All of the events listed above are open to non members and people with no previous experience.

Adventure Racing
It is not unusual to see members jumping in the car on a Sunday morning to go off and do one of the many adventure races going on around the country. In recent months we have entered teams into

Edinburgh Rat Race
Deerstalker Mountain Race
Tough Guy Endurance
Sunshine Triathlon
Great North Run

Some of these events would have never been considered in the past by some clients, but due to training and encouragement from trainers and training partners, people have gone on to complete events that they never thought possible.

ODFC is the real deal. Gyms sell off the fact that they are sociable, but we all know that this isn’t the case. The success of ODFC is down to the fact that we deliver not only fantastic fitness classes with results, but we promote the social aspect that a lot of people want. You can choose to train only or become part of what is more than just exercise. You can never have too many friends!