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Look at doing this next year.

Anyone done it?

Details?

Run around. Jump over things. Crawl under things. Get muddy.

My friends are doing it this year. It looks unpleasant, particularly the bit where they electrocute people for a giggle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQmKc8Q-4U

It's an 8 mile run/obstacle course


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUaYwjEVgQ

That looks fantastic. I'd love to do it. Bad knees though, so I can't  :pint:

You should be ashamed of yourself entering a commercial copy cat event like that.

Why don't you do the original and best - TOUGH GUY
http://www.toughguy.co.uk/
They do it on the last Sunday in January
I've done it 6 times, and one time it didn't get above -5c all day - frogmen breaking the ice before you go in

It's done for charity not to line someones pocket in America

Rant Over

Loads of people from my gym are doing it and I wish I'd signed up
My friends from Vfestival did it last weekend in Leeds
I think I'll try and do it next year?

If your looking to do Tough Mudder you should do the Wolf Run as well.  There is a Winter one in November which I have entered

http://www.thewolfrun.com/winterwolf/

Im considering a half marathon next year.  Thats enough without twatting about in the mud.

This

Fuck that. I love running, but hate mud and have the upper body strength of a nine year old girl. Can't see how people find enjoyment in it

You do look a lot stronger in your picture

I like all types of running tough mudder is more stamina & endurance than running tbh. Its a bit of fun but you will always get the serious types there though also.

I ran my 1st Marathon in May @ Edinburgh.  It almost killed me but the pride of finishing & getting that medal at the end more than made up for it. Hoping to get into London through the Ballot when its announced in October.

I 'm running Bristol Half this Weekend then Malmesbury next weekend. Also will be running Bournemouth, Swindon & Great South Run before doing Winter Wolf then Swindon 10k in November.

Starting my training tomorrow. Fields and grass running. Fun.

Getting a pair of vibram five finger running shoes as apparently they are the best thing when it comes to running.

Like none of you lot give a shit, but the south west event is in Cirencester next year.

I have just registered so no going back now.

Will be asking for donations to a charity soon. It'll either be help for heroes or scbu at the gwh.

There's one at Ciren? Typical, a month after registering for the Winchester one.  What date's Cirencester?

Not a massive fan of H4H, not a charity top of the list I'd like to go out and raise money for I have to say, each to their own though.

It's in August.

The same as, but as default Help for Heroes is the registered charity.

Yeah I saw the H4H thing once we'd signed up, decided to make up a stand alone fund raising page (when the time comes) as like I say there are plenty of other charities I'd prefer to raise money for.

August as well, makes October in Winchester feel like a poor option. Oh well, adds to the 'experience'.

Have you started training yet?

Nope, starting in January. That'll give me plenty of time to regain my pre-fatherhood fitness I reckon.

What are you planning? I'm currently doing 5 mile cross country runs 2 to 3 times a week as well as football training/playing. This sort of weather is good because he fields are muddy.

I'll be signing up with the guys from my gym

Not sure as I'm doing it with a few of my accounts and the PA's at the accounts are running a bootcamp style training for us - as one of them is very much into her fitness and the other one will like ordering us blokes about.

Added to that I need to start running again, just build up my fitness levels steadily.

Sounds like you have it covered, so much time to go, should be fine.

Any donations appreciated.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/toughmudderciren

Still looking for donations people! The prospect really is a good local charity.

This has come around too quickly!!

Raised £717.50 so far. If we could make it to £1k it would be a real achievement.

Any donation, no matter how small, would really be appreciated.

That looks awesome.
Was struggling for a novelty birthday present for the wife!

Well I finished in just over three hours. Completed every obstacle apart from the monkey bars.

Absolutely loved it. Wasn't as hard as I imagined either.

So you didnt finish it then? ;)

Seriously though, fair play, dont think i could do it. Didint Bushey Boy do it aswell?

Did you have the electrodes at the end?

Completed every obstacle apart from monkey bars.

Yeah BB did it, but he's a tiny fucker so probably found it easier!


Yeah. 10000 volts.

It's just commercialised bollocks

Tough Guy is the original, and the only one that counts

It is commercial but it's still a sense of achievement.

Are you a bit of a prick or what?  Commercialised or not, it's a pretty good achievement if you ask me, and what "counts" is very much up to the individual.  

Well done Sippo.

You can call someone a prick via a keyboard

Sounds like you should enter Tough Mudder

Well done Sippo, great achievement. You going to do another one? I really need to start training for October.

Yep, will be next year. Cirencester was 25 obstacles over 12 miles. So it's a lot of start stop. No waiting around at obstacles which is good, but helped a lot of 'strangers'.

May do monster race in nov.

What time did you start sippo? We went off at 10.20 and did it in 3.5 hrs, I may have been one of those 'strangers'!

Really enjoyed it overall although a bit sore today, will definitely be doing another in the future

Look forward to seeing the photos of you completing Tough Guy

10.20 as well. We were the guys in the sunglasses!

Nice one Sippo/LR.

Cheers for the donation batch!

Only one on here to donate.

Every little helps. Is a great cause.

 Just signed up for TM no2 in Winchester....in Oct..

Here you go then - coming out of the head-freeze tunnel !
(Tough Guy is the end of January, not the middle of Summer)

You are my hero

End of the day, I've achieved something that I wouldn't normally do and have raised over £800 for prospect.

That's all that matters.

Name change justified I feel.

That'll be a git of a login jay  ::)

Login name doesn't change, only what is displayed here.

Should be a piece of piss, you should try doing the proper one in January when it's much much colder. If you don't get hypothermia then you're doing it wrong.

When does the indoor TM season start?

Sippo you doing another TM this year?

Yep, got it today. Leaving at 6.15.

Good man and good luck. I've just signed up for the Cirencester one and hope to do Winchester too, all being well.

Hope today goes well, bit of rain never hurt anyone.

The new obstacles are tough. More team based. Cry baby was good, birth canal was hard. Very hard. Everest is now curved at the top.

Very hilly and wet today and got a sub 3 hours, which am chuffed to bits with.

Under 3 hours that's quick. You forget the pledge or something? Or you help a couple of people and go at each obstacle?

Looking forward to Cirencester already, had my first run since the last tough Mudder yesterday, 110 days to go, about that anyway.

We tend to help around 4 or 5 people at each obstacle. The obstacles this year are more team based.

Some people don't hang around to help others which defeats the object.

Anyone doing it from Swindon area can use this code for 25% off entrance fee:

Not just limited to the swindon area. That code is for their 5 year anniversary.

Think the helping out strangers is what makes tough Mudder. Loved reaching out for some struggling bloke or woman, getting them over, good feeling.

BBC Two now, a show about Tough Mudder (called Modern Times: Weekend Warriors)

Those 2 bellends treating it as a race, they seem to have missed the point completely

And running 26 miles the night before.

T'was the week before, not night before. But don't disagree with the point.

Very tempted to have a crack at it.

You should. It's a great crack and very addictive!

Ouch

https://youtu.be/yhMPtuhAFQ0

In October 14 I signed myself up for London West TM (May this year), then realised I'd probably never run 12 miles before in my life......so trained a bit gradually running from 1.5 to 13 odd miles, so in Jan I thought I'd have a crack at the Reading Half Marathon held in March, did that (very slowly  :) ) and managed the Tough Mudder in just over 3.5 hours....!

My point is yes it's commercialised, but if I can do it, I reckon pretty much anyone can. Beware though you do get caught up in the "Hoo Rah" "hell yeah" stuff, but it's very well organised and a great crack and a real sense of achievement no matter how slow or what shape you are in.

Doing the Cirencester one in August, for my Mudder Legion head band.....! 

Seriously, have a crack at it, just train a bit.......! Be aware running becomes addictive if you're not careful and it does hurt a bit...!

Farmer 61, Aged 53 with two dodgy knees and dodgy left ankle....!