THE SISTERHOOD
Ordinary girls doing extraordinary things
Born from a meeting between two highly competitive individuals, The Sisterhood came to fruition not on a whim, but on a challenge, and less than a year later an elite group of fearless females turned up on a sunny beach in Dover to undertake the original challenge - to race The Brotherhood across the English Channel to France.
11 months of training through wind, rain and sun, and more injuries than our on-board physio could cope with, The Sisterhood reached France in a World Record time of 3 hours 42 minutes.
They are a team of 40 extremely photogenic women who are from a variety of professions and sporting backgrounds, ranging from professional athletes to women who haven’t taken part in sport for over 10 years. They spent 2007 and 2008 taking part in adventure races, triathlons and dragon boat regattas around the world before smashing the World Record across the English Channel and completing the Great Amazon Raft Race - a three day stage race over 180km down the Amazon in Peru. The Sisterhood’s Art of Sport photoshoot - featuring sporting celebrities such as Freddie Flintoff and Josh Lewsey - was picked up by the Sun and sold as The Sun’s 2008 calendar.
They continued in 2009, doubling in numbers and taking on the Bosphorus swim - a 6.5km swim from Europe to Asia. On top of that, 2009 saw them conquer the Venice Vogalonga, The Great River Race in London, and several adventure races and triathlons. Since 2010, world domination has continued, with Sisters partaking in new adventures including Coast to Coast Adventure races across Yorkshire and Costa Rica, Kilimanjaro climbs, Everest base camp treks, and Marathon de Sables running. Now 2019 sees them take on The Speed Project - a 340 mile running relay race from LA to Las Vegas, as well as a relay Channel Swim with TV Presenter Helen Skelton.
All in aid of various amazing charities. To date we’ve raised over £750,000 and there’s no sign of slowing down (as you can imagine, we’re not big on slowing down).
MEET THE HOOD
THE SISTERWOOD
The Sisterwood is the merry band of men that would follow the hood to the ends of the earth and back. They are the brothers, boyfriends, husbands and friends of the girls and they take part in pretty much all the Hood events, both sporting and social. They carry us over finish lines when we are not carrying them over, they carry us out of bars, and they balance out the crazy.