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Anyone done one of these? Just signed up for next year's Winchester event. Going to be hard as i've never ran a half marathon let alone 13 miles with obstacles like that. Got roped into it by an account of mine, should be a day to remember.

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Doing the Kettering one.

I bloody searched for 'Tough Mudder' using the search function and it just brought up a load of daily news articles by that chuffing monkey.

Oh well.

don't they give you electric shocks ?

Jan, how did you get on? I found it very hard and completed in 3 hours.

Doing it tomorrow Sippo. Not looking forward to it at all in all honesty. Feel a lot fitter than I was a month ago, but it's gonna be a massive struggle for me. Just got to complete it.

Well done for doing it mate, well earned shirt, head band and pint eh?

I won't lie. It has killed me. Harder than the ciren one. But you will love it! Enjoy the eye candy, and the obstacles! For electric eel, do it fast. Leave a gap and go quick. If you go slow like some did today, you will be worse off!

Bit of advice it took us 3/4 hour to get in the car park, and then a 20 min walk. Leave early!

Leaving Swindon at 7am for a half ten start. Sounds like I'll be knackered before I start!

Killed you but enjoyed it yeah?

Mate, it always is ace. Some people are 'funny' about get wet and muddy but just go for it! Tie those shoe laces tightly!

Well that was a great experience, absolutely loved it. Ache like I've never ached before but that's part of it. Great event, glad to have completed it. Time wasn't great 3.5hrs but one of our lot got cramp at balls to the wall and struggled from there, with around 5.5 miles to go.

Glad you loved it. Wait til tmrw. Aches and bruises will appear! 3.5 miles isn't that bad.

How did you find the 'valleys'?! That's one of, if not the hardest, courses in the UK, so well done.

Favourite obstacle?

For me walk the plank was where TM started today. Muddy mile (?) was great, especially as we went in on the right hand side and were literally above our waists in mud. Arctic enema was everything I thought it'd be, and so painful when you got out.

Loved the running, which surprised me, though my groins are shot. The valleys were something else, never run more than 6 miles in one go before, so to do 12 on that terrain felt good.

Getting up Everest was probably the greatest sense of achievement felt, hugged a few of my team mates at that point as we'd done it then, the shocks were fine, and the beer at the end lovely.

Roll on TM'15.

Ha ha. Someone's caught the bug! Look out for the email to get cheaper tickets.

I've booked up for Henley on Thames (London west) on May 2nd, and want to do an event in Germany.

Next time you get to do the legionnaires cause which has fire in your hole!

Also keep an eye out for photos on their Facebook uk page, and by the end of the week on gamefacemedia.com

Tough guy is waaaaay better you saps! ;)

I think I'll book sat 2 May too, before midnight Wednesday. Give me something to aim for during the winter. Don't really fancy half marathons, prefer the cross country/obstacle events.

Have watched a couple of videos of it, and it does looks like a lot of fun.
How do you even train for something like that though?

I've just started doing a bit of running again and playing footie again a couple of times a week after an ongoing groin problem, and I either want to have a crack at the half marathon or something like this next year, if only to give me something to aim for.

Just get yourself in a position where you can run a few miles and have the right never give up kind of mental attitude and you'll be fine. You'll love it.

I'm considering doing some extreme cross country 10k'er near Cheltenham in February. Sounds like a good laugh.

Go trail running. Especially now winter is coming. Run in the rain and the cold. I've never run more than 6 miles in training.

Tough Mudder is also about mental training, and not just physical. For example artic enema, Everest or electo shock you just cannot train for...

Jan, photos now online at gamefacemedia

Seen them Sippo, looks like I managed to avoid most of the photographers except a decent group shot after muddy mile.

There's normally photos at the end

Well done to all those who complete this wonderful event.

It's much tougher than tough guy, which is just a pale copy.

Can I have my name back ?

No. Cunt.

diddums

Much as I disagree with most of what NBR posts, I don't think mods have any business messing about with people's user-names. Just stick to moderating on the rare occasions it's required.

the mods on here are a lot more childish than your usual one though. Not that that's a bad thing of course, I enjoy it.

I wouldn't be surprised if I came on here one day and you were 'Cheese eating surrender monkey' for example.

soapy tit wank. Good luck with that then!

Well I really didn't see that one coming when I raised my head over the parapet to take on the might of the TEF politburo.  ::)

Shhh. They'd never have come up with that on their own.

It's an outrage

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Poor old Tony Harrison.

Poor old RedFrog Cheese Eating CUNT.

In Soviet TownEnd, Mods name you!

Do I sense Jayo's delicate touch entering, and closing, the discussion?

I was going to give you three guesses, you only needed one.

I met jayo at a match once. A he called me a skinny cunt. I was delighted and terrified at the same time. Which was nice.

See. I told you you were over-estimating them.


I'm beginning to think poor Jayo has Tourette's. Who can help him?

None of us cunts.

skinny love?

I don't have Tourette's, I just think you're a cunt.