Minor challenge night once again. It’s not really all that minor, but it certainly is challenging!

Who’ll win? What will their prize be? Will Michelle smack down Munnalita tonight or will we be forced to wait longer?

Read on to find out!

“The entire White House has been stripped of gym equipment!” – Shannan
Munnalita is whining because she relies on that equipment, whereas Mel takes it in her stride and says she knows she can’t afford all that equipment at home so it’s fine!

Michelle and Shannan both say it’s fine, there’s a million things they can do without equipment!
Shannan takes Blue out on the lawn for some high speed sprints up and down the full length of that section of lawn… The grass is looking really brown though. Stupid water restrictions!

Shannan’s running alongside Laura when suddenly Laura’s knee gives way and she goes down screaming. Shannan could immediately see that her kneecap is dislocated. As he’s straightening her leg for her he just lightly touches the kneecap and it pops back in, which helps a lot.
The medic says that she’s probably strained some ligaments and it’ll need some ice on it and the physio will have to have a look at it, but it should be fine!
She hobbles back out to the lawn to let her team know she’s okay… and Shannan points out that there’s no tears! And indeed there wasn’t, it’s a big step in Project Laura.
Then she has an aside where she starts tearing up a bit about how this is going to set her back and such. But an improvement is an improvement!

We don’t see Red’s routine as after the ad break they’re already heading off to the minor challenge.
The challenge looks to be some kind of relay race… Up a fairly long hill, though not too vicious a gradient at least.

Laura has to sit out of the challenge for medical reasons, which leaves them with 3 members, meaning Red needs to sit two people out. Red picks one, Blue picks one, as per the previous week.
Blue picks Greg. “I don’t blame them, I’m probably the fittest and strongest here. But it’s never stopped red before!”
Red picks Show-me-the-money-lita, yet again.

“You are about to run the relay race from hell, up and down this hill… one hundred times.” – Ajay
“Oh, fuck.” – Courtney

And oh, it’s not just 50 up, 50 down… It’s 100 up, 100 down! And with a 5 kilo weight in your hand. Ow.

Winner gets a choice between the Commando… or the key to the spin room?
Michelle and Shannan are there to encourage them.

Damien is shitting himself, wondering how he’d ever manage to do it.

The way they do the race is one contestant does a one way run, passes the “baton”/5kg weight to someone at the bottom and that person runs back up the track.
Marty thought running down the hill would be easy but it was actually really hard. Jules thought 5kg would be easy but by the end of a lap she thought it was more like 50!
Damien says he’s out of breath after the very first lap and if he’s got to do 30 more after that, he’s not sure how he’ll cope. Shannan points out that he has one guy against two on Red and Damien is fit, don’t get him wrong… But he’s also a good 50kg heavier than either of them, making it much much harder.

“Think about your breathing, just one step after the other!” Thanks, Michelle!
Michelle tells Pati to just let the hill do a lot of the work, just sort of let it help you down the hill.
Marty’s a trooper, he’s actually doing laps for Courtney and Pati, he’s actually finding it easier to go straight back up the hill after going down. Still, Courtney and Pati are letting the team down!

Damien and Jules are struggling immensely. Mel’s not doing too well but she keeps plugging away as fast as she can because she could tell how hard the other two were doing it.
Damien keeps going and going and going, even though earlier he was thinking of giving up for a while.

Pati’s actually impressed with Courtney for once, he turns a corner at some point in the race and starts running lap after lap by himself, after Marty needs to have a lie down and get his legs rubbed a bit as they’re starting to really hurt him… probably from all the extra laps he did early.

Then as Jules hits the bottom of the hill, she tells Mel that she’s got to go to the toilet! So now while she’s off doing that, Mel and Damien are going to have to start doing double laps to compensate. “Oh fuck!” Damien sort of grunts out in between fighting for breath.
“I’m fucking hurting like I’ve never hurt before, mate!” – Damien
Shannan says he’s got to leave the old Damien behind… but Damien’s wanting to pack it in. Will he keep going?

After the ad break we find out that yes! He’ll keep on going and going! It’s the fat blue duracell bunny!
“If Damien can’t give up, then nobody can give up!” – Jules, presumably back from her potty break.

Courtney is fairly sure they’re ahead and they’re finally on the last lap, with Pati and Courtney running up the hill together.
Courtney says he wouldn’t’ve even been able to go up the hill when he arrived at the house, he was a smoker, 15-20 a day and stuff and to go up and down the hill 60 times or whatever made him really proud.

Reds win and Blue still have a bunch of laps to go. “You gunna finish the job?” – Shannan. Damien’s reluctant to answer, because he wants to say no. “So I said mate, if you don’t lose this weight, someone’s going to put you in a pine box not too long from now…”
“Are you going to finish the job?” “… yes.” “What?” “Yes!”
And during the last laps, Greg starts running up and down the hill on their side of the course encouraging him, as are some of the other Reds.

Mel and Damien finish the last lap together, Mel grabbing onto Damien’s hand and they both jog up together. “Who will be remembered for the hill challenge today?”
“Everything was burning. It was a pain like nothing I’ve ever felt before.” – Damien
He’s on the verge of bursting out crying at the end of the race, but he holds it back. Greg comes over and gives him a big hug, as does Michelle afterwards, Shannan does a more manly handgrip.

Tomorrow night the Commando is going to roust Blue out of their bed in the dead of night for the Commando training apparently. Ouch!
Temptation too. Fast food vending cart. Heaven!