Tough Mudder Toronto

[robthehiker]

Here are a few pics from yesterday's Tough Mudder race. I had planned on wearing a kilt post-race but I didn't get around to it....

[LitTrog]

I heard that next year they're adding Nile Crocodiles to this section. Y'all look like bored wildebeests.

Congrats on tackling and conquering a challenging event like that, Rob. The Mudder is not easy!

[LitTrog]

Y'all look like bored wildebeests.

Let me amend that. Not bored, just insufferably overconfident. What fun is a water crossing if you don't run the risk of becoming a meal?

[A Natural MacDowell]

Huzzah! I've done TM in Indiana and found it to be one of the best events I've ever done. Well done

[bodhran4me]

If the guy in the middle actually drinks 50 he is definitely One Tough Mudder! A buddy's dad always used to buy 50 and we could never figure out why. One day he was mad and came out with the statement 'and I have to buy that 50 crap so you guys don't drink it all on me'. Ah the excesses of youth.

[cessna152towser]

Great pics, looks like a tough challenge.
I do hope you will be OK after it, there was a tough mudder event near here a couple of months ago and some of the contestants became ill afterwards from eColi virus, possibly caused from what was unintentionally ingested on the way round the course.

[OC Richard]

well I learn something every day. I never heard of "tough mudder". What, exactly, is it?

A young woman at work recently did some sort of thing which is run by The Marines, where you do an extreme obstacle course, including climbing over walls with and without ropes, crawling up netting, going hand-over-hand dangling from a ladder thing over a mud pit, and so forth. Is the Tough Mudder like that?

BTW that middle photo is exquisite and looks like something right out of National Geographic.

[robthehiker]

Thanks all.

Tyler, please don't suggest that to the organizers!

@bodhran4me, I did the very same thing when I was in university! 50 was known as a "trucker's beer" but I didn't much like ANY beer back then so it didn't matter.

Alex, I felt pretty good after the race although I'm still a bit sore and scraped up. No e coli thankfully!

well I learn something every day. I never heard of "tough mudder". What, exactly, is it?

A young woman at work recently did some sort of thing which is run by The Marines, where you do an extreme obstacle course, including climbing over walls with and without ropes, crawling up netting, going hand-over-hand dangling from a ladder thing over a mud pit, and so forth. Is the Tough Mudder like that?

BTW that middle photo is exquisite and looks like something right out of National Geographic.

It's basically a 10 mile/16 km obstacle course that (I think) was dreamed up by a British MBA student at Harvard. It's not a race but a challenge, stressing teamwork and finishing over speed. Obstacles include going up and down ski hills (several times), crawling through mud under barbed wire, slogging though large dumpsters filled with chest high ice water (aka the Arctic Enema) and running through wires charged with 10,000 volts of electricity (ouch).

The MBA professor said it was an interesting idea but hat they'd never get enough participation to make it viable. My event had 15,000 participants at $90-$140 each. Yes, 15,000.

Now held in the US, Britain, Canada and Australia, some of its proceeds help support the "Wounded Warriors" project that provides assistance to veterans.

I took that photo on my old point and shoot camera; it turned out pretty well!