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I\u2019m not in any of the other pictures below,\u00a0 but all were taken on Sunday at our event, a picture or two of most of the obstacles that we dealt with through the Tough Mudder.\u00a0 \u00a0We actually crossed through countless mudholes, ditches, creeks and swamps, basically every ditch or water hole they could run us through.\u00a0 \u00a0Most of them had deep holes, dropping from knee deep to waist\/chest high, then back out.,<\/p>\n
There was also a pond we had to go in, and swim under rolls of barrels, several sets of those and there was one more series of 4 walls I think it was, we had to go over but I don\u2019t have a picture of those, but they were just like you see in the military obstacle course.<\/p>\n
Jacuzzi = Pink ice water, that board on the right was a barrier, you had to JUMP in, go 5-6 feet to the barrier, \u00a0go under it , and another 5-6 feet to climb out.\u00a0 Those guys had just resurfaced. <\/strong><\/p>\n Unbelievably cold, complete shock to the system.\u00a0 \u00a0Could not breath, nor feel much of anything until we got to the next obstacle.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Steeplechase \u2013 I think 8 of these, just little waist high walls to hurdle, till you went over the first one and realized they had a big ditch cut on the other side. JUMP!\u00a0 Got the heartrate up.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Underwater Tunnels<\/strong><\/p>\n No-picture, but we crossed a pond, bobbing underneath several rows of barrels floating parallel in the water. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kiss of Mud \u2013 crawling through the mud under\u00a0 barbed wire.\u00a0 Not terribly difficult, but slippery and a nice introduction to the dirt to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spiders Web. \u00a0Up and over a cargo net.\u00a0 Easy, fun, just like you see on TV!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Underground tunnels, zig-zagging along, complete dark, easy to run right into the wall when the tunnel made a 90 degree turn. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lay on your back, with feet wrapped around the rope and pull yourself across a muddy pond.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Make your way through some swinging tires.\u00a0 Kind of boring for a ‘Mystery Obstacle’.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Devils Beard \u2013 Crawling under a cargo net along a very long mud flat, with some holes, thrown in for good measure. Falling in the deep holes, having to hold the net up so you don’t get tangled in it.\u00a0 Yea, we’re dirty now! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We went through countless mud holes, ditches, mud flats, submerged roads.\u00a0 Every place they could run us through some nasty, muddy, wet area, that\u2019s where the course went.<\/strong><\/p>\n Then we had to climb up and over 3 or 4 sets of big round hay bales.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How\u2019s your balance?\u00a0 How\u2019s your balance on a wet muddy 2×6?\u00a0\u00a0 How\u2019s your balance on a wet muddy 2×6 that\u2019s being shaken by other people also trying to keep their balance on the same 2×6?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yea, thought so.\u00a0 I ALMOST made is all the way across, only a FEW feet left,\u00a0 before plunging to the water below. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Down the tunnel, very easy slide down, into \u00a0the muddy water at the bottom, \u00a0back up the SLICK tunnel with nothing to hold onto inside.\u00a0 It was tough.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Walls, walls, walls.\u00a0\u00a0 Two separate sets of walls, one was 4 walls, probably 10 feet.\u00a0 Could jump, grab the top, and get over these.\u00a0 then later on the course, a set of two walls, taller, that most people had to get a hand from above to help get them to the top.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n More water, more mud, more deep holes to fall in.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hope you\u2019re not afraid of heights! <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jump from hay bale to hay bale, spaced FAR apart, or climb up, jump down, climb up, jump down, about 8 of those to cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then we had to run a\u00a0 series of steep man-made ups and downs in the dirt.\u00a0 Reminded me of running a gnarly motocross track.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tough little exercise here, that board for the feet was very thin and muddy.\u00a0 Mostly using hand strength to hand on and move along the wall.\u00a0 At least no water to fall in here.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Run through fire, wouldn\u2019t have been bad, but the breeze was blowing the smoke right along our running path, so we got to breath smoke for a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Up a ramp, across a cargo net, down a ramp<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grab a big log, carry it through a pond, don\u2019t freak out when you see the floating alligator head. That was a nice touch \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Climb the mountain of hay bales. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Funky Monkey \u2013 Cross the monkey bars, never done monkey bars going UP.\u00a0 Up then down, don\u2019t fall!\u00a0 I trained like crazy to prepare for these, a little worried that I’d not be able hang on and do the up and down angle, but I CRUISED across them with no problem. Nice!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sprint fast, get as high as you can, and lunge for the lip of the ramp.\u00a0 Hopefully a little help from above and you\u2019re up and over.\u00a0 It’s dang hard to run up a BMX ramp!\u00a0 Got it first try though. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shock treatment \u2013 we expected lots of little zaps of electricity as we ran through these hanging wires.\u00a0 No, it was like getting hit with a baseball bat in the chest, a full body blow. <\/strong><\/p>\n I got in 6 \u00a0feet or so with no shocks, and just as I thought it was going to be non-event , just at the hay bale crossing, the first jolt hit me and put me on the ground. \u00a0Next thought was \u2018Oh Damn, I have a LONG way to go!\u2019\u00a0 I got one more shock like that, glad it wasn\u2019t more.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh Man!\u00a0 Good Times!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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