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anybody here do mud runs? (1 Viewer)

Maik Jeaunz

Maik Jeaunz

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doing my first tomorrow, 5K Rugged Maniac. should be fun...good exercise, free beer, girls in wet clothes, what's not to like?

anybody do these and have any tips for not looking like a goof? so far I've got:

- don't wear cotton
- double tie my shoes

 
I did the Warrior Dash a couple years ago. It was fun, but it's hard to try and run it for a certain time. I'm not sure if that one has obstacles, but for the Warrior Dash, you basically come to a stop at the obstacles and wait for people to get through before you can go. And definitely wear stuff that you won't mind throwing away afterwards.

 
I did a color run a few years ago. 

Dont wear anything you care about. It'll be ruined. 

Probably self-explanatory but try not to get anything in your eye. This girl literally lost an eye during a mud run because she scratched her cornea while doing an obstacle course. So maybe wear goggles.

 
MattFancy said:
I did the Warrior Dash a couple years ago. It was fun, but it's hard to try and run it for a certain time. I'm not sure if that one has obstacles, but for the Warrior Dash, you basically come to a stop at the obstacles and wait for people to get through before you can go. And definitely wear stuff that you won't mind throwing away afterwards.
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yeah, it's a 5K run but has like 25 obstacles. I expect a lot of hurry up & wait. I'm not worried about doing it for time, I'm just trying to beat the chicks in our group.

 
The moderating around here has me shuked. :confused:

How does a thread like this not get nuked?

I mean, now that I know what a mud run is, courtesy of urban dictionary.

 
So much fun!  I did the usmc one last year and am doing it again this year.  I did it with my family, including my 9 year old daughter. Who cares about your time. I wore compression sleeves on my knees because I knew there would be some crawling and this year, i' m wearing a $10 bathing suit from Walmart instead of any kind of regular shorts.  

Have fun!

 
DA RAIDERS said:
So much fun!  I did the usmc one last year and am doing it again this year.  I did it with my family, including my 9 year old daughter. Who cares about your time. I wore compression sleeves on my knees because I knew there would be some crawling and this year, i' m wearing a $10 bathing suit from Walmart instead of any kind of regular shorts.  

Have fun!
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it was literally was of the most fun things I've ever done. it's like being in an episode of WipeOut with your friends, then pounding some beers and eating a giant burrito from a taco truck with girls in wet shorts all around you. I'm hooked.

 
I do a local one that is pretty tame. my 11 year old daughter does it with me and we have a blast.

I'm trying to graduate to the next level...signed up for the Tough Mudder 2x but had to back out b/c of a knee injury one year and a GD wedding the next.  

Thinking I might go for it this year, but nobody I know wants to do it. They are a lot more fun when you are doing it with friends. 

As for laces, I wear these in my shoes and they work better than laces. 

Work on upper body stuff like monkey bars and hanging type skills. Those and rope climbs. Have fun.

 
Maik Jeaunz said:
it was literally was of the most fun things I've ever done. it's like being in an episode of WipeOut with your friends, then pounding some beers and eating a giant burrito from a taco truck with girls in wet shorts all around you. I'm hooked.
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It really is one of the best things I've ever done with a group of people.   I organized it and got us all matching tshirts.  It was me, my wife and daughter.  Our neighbors, and their teen daughters and their cocky boyfriends.  Our group was from 49 to 9 years old.  We vowed to "not leave a man behind".  So, we all finished together and had an absolute blast.   The same 2 families are running again with some new people joining us and I expect nothing but an absolute blast!  

eta:  after race party with massive DJ, stage, dancing, beer tents and food was all icing.

 
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Used to do these with my wife and her friends before she started being pregnant all the time. Fun and challenging. 

 
No clue.  I use to do this Beer run but they've tamed it down from previous years.  When they first started doing this people would be hammered by the first K.  Running though peoples yards and puking.  Now they dont give out as much beer so i stopped doing it :(

 
ChiefD said:
I do these also. All you need is a ten and a fiver, keys and a car and a sober driver.
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They are fun.  There is also a 5k dog run here in MN that is fun but i have a mini weiner dog who'd never make it.  I'd end up carrying him after 3 blocks so its a no go.

 
So I did the Tough Mudder Half this past weekend. Overall it was a very fun race, although I expected it to be a little more challenging. 

There are 2 versions of the mudder, the 10-mile 'Full' and the 5-mile 'Half' As expected, the half has less obstacles, but IMO they saved the really good ones for the full. 

We had about 12-14 obstacles that consisted of crawling on your belly thought wet mud under some barbed wire, carrying a log and a hero carry for a certain length, scaling a wall that was angled toward you and then a few basic wall climbs. The really fun ones were saved toward the end.

Mud Mile was a length of muddy water with dirt hills placed across it that you had to climb over.

Pyramid Scheme was pretty sick, it was a slick wall on an angle. Of course you had to jump in a pool fist so you got wet, then you had to form a human ladder 3-4 people high and have the rest of your team climb up you to the top. After that, the people on top had to find a way to pull the other who formed the ladder up to the top. I was the bottom rung of the ladder, so I had to climb up another ladder and then pull myself up on the legs of a teammate dangling down from the top. 

Block Ness Monster was fun, its a pool of wet mud that you had to get a cross but there were 2 triangle shaped rollers across the pool that you had to climb up and over. Teamwork was key b/c guys on one side pushed up and when you were on top, you rolled around to grab the ledge and let your body weight pull the next group over. 

And finally, Everest which is their signature obstacle. Its a slick, 15+ ft tall, quarter-pipe where you need to run up it and grab the top and pull your self over. I got it in 1 shot with some help from guys on top. But saw quite a few people bite it hard if they missed. 

Overall it was a good time. Didn't get as 'muddy' as i expected, but thats because most of the 'mud' was really just dirty water, and the Block Ness one was the 2nd to last obstacle and it washed us off pretty good. 

I think I'm gonna train a little more and do the full next year. It just looks like a lot more fun. 

 
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glvsav37 said:
So I did the Tough Mudder Half this past weekend. Overall it was a very fun race, although I expected it to be a little more challenging. 

There are 2 versions of the mudder, the 10-mile 'Full' and the 5-mile 'Half' As expected, the half has less obstacles, but IMO they saved the really good ones for the full. 

We had about 12-14 obstacles that consisted of crawling on your belly thought wet mud under some barbed wire, carrying a log and a hero carry for a certain length, scaling a wall that was angled toward you and then a few basic wall climbs. The really fun ones were saved toward the end.

Mud Mile was a length of muddy water with dirt hills placed across it that you had to climb over.

Pyramid Scheme was pretty sick, it was a slick wall on an angle. Of course you had to jump in a poll fist so you got wet, then you had to form a human ladder 3-4 people high and have the rest of your team climb up you to the top. After that, the people on top had to find a way to pull the other who formed the ladder up to the top. I was the bottom rung of the ladder, so I had to climb up another ladder and then pull myself up on the legs of a teammate dangling down from the top. 

Block Ness Monster was fun, its a pool of wet mud that you had to get a cross but there were 2 triangle shaped rollers across the pool that you had to climb up and over. Teamwork was key b/c guys on one side pushed up and when you were on top, you rolled around to grab the ledge and let your body weight pull the next group over. 

And finally, Everest which is their signature obstacle. Its a slick, 15+ ft tall, quarter-pipe where you need to run up it and grab the top and pull your self over. I got it in 1 shot with some help from guys on top. But saw quite a few people bite it hard if they missed. 

Overall it was a good time. Didn't get as 'muddy' as i expected, but thats because most of the 'mud' was really just dirty water, and the Block Ness one was the 2nd to last obstacle and it washed us off pretty good. 

I think I'm gonna train a little more and do the full next year. It just looks like a lot more fun. 
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Sounds like some pretty challenging obstacles. I did a Warrior Dash in Orlando, and the obstacles were fairly easy compared to what you described. Go for the full next year, you'll do fine and if not, just fake an injury in the Block Ness Monster.

 
JShare87 said:
Sounds like some pretty challenging obstacles. I did a Warrior Dash in Orlando, and the obstacles were fairly easy compared to what you described. Go for the full next year, you'll do fine and if not, just fake an injury in the Block Ness Monster.
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thanks....the full has some really outrageous ones...like the Augustus Gloop (from the Willy Wonka Movies), where you swim under a fence to tube, inside the tube is ladder to climb up but they are shooting water down the tub on you as you climb.  

The full also has a lot of tall ring and monkey bar type obstacles, so I really need to work on my upper body strength which currently sucks. 

 
Oh man, I freaking love mud/obstacle races!  Run north of 50 over last 10 years.  After years of road races I got bored with generic point A to point B runs.  My first run was Savage Race and I’ve not looked back since.  I’ve now done Savage I think 12 times, Tough Mudder 8 times, Warrior and Rugged Dashes twice each, and a slew of smaller, more regional options.  I’ve yet to do a Spartan, for some reason they always conflict with some other obligation.  My next goal is to travel to the Pacific Northwest and experience one in that terrain, seems like a fun new challenge

Fun tip:  I’m no marathoner by any means, but 5k distance is just short even with obstacles.  You can easily cycle through back to start line after finishing your initial wave and do it again; get more bang for your buck.  Only TM patrols the starting line for repeat runners as far as I’ve seen

 
That one guy said:
Oh man, I freaking love mud/obstacle races!  Run north of 50 over last 10 years.  After years of road races I got bored with generic point A to point B runs.  My first run was Savage Race and I’ve not looked back since.  I’ve now done Savage I think 12 times, Tough Mudder 8 times, Warrior and Rugged Dashes twice each, and a slew of smaller, more regional options.  I’ve yet to do a Spartan, for some reason they always conflict with some other obligation.  My next goal is to travel to the Pacific Northwest and experience one in that terrain, seems like a fun new challenge

Fun tip:  I’m no marathoner by any means, but 5k distance is just short even with obstacles.  You can easily cycle through back to start line after finishing your initial wave and do it again; get more bang for your buck.  Only TM patrols the starting line for repeat runners as far as I’ve seen
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50?  What do you do with the shoes?  I’ve done like 3 and the clothes are completely ruined every time.  I enjoy them, but in the end I’m all scraped up from the obstacles and I dump my clothes. 

 
bigmarc27 said:
50?  What do you do with the shoes?  I’ve done like 3 and the clothes are completely ruined every time.  I enjoy them, but in the end I’m all scraped up from the obstacles and I dump my clothes. 
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I’ve probably had about 7-8 pairs of shoes for the races.  I use New Balance Minimus’, durable as all get out and can just hose them off at home after each race.  For clothes I have a lot of the cheap Under Armour knock-off stretchy long sleeve shirts from Target, one and done use typically unless I manage to get through without any tears/rips.  Regular running shorts.  

There’s always some cuts and bruising after races.  My favorite “look at me, I’m a man!” story comes from my first ever Tough Mudder.  When each wave was called to the start line you actually had to scale a 10ft wall to get to it.  It was raining that day, so everything was wet.  As I got to top and started to swing my leg over a lady appeared right in path of my foot and I tried to stop from kicking her.  My hands slipped and I fell down on my ribs on top of the platform.  I had chest pains through the entire run, but I was determined to not let any obstacle defeat me.  They had 2 of the damn electricity obstacles back in the day:  the first was a belly crawl under barbed wire and dangling wires.  As you approached that obstacle all you could hear was a bunch of screams and cuss words.  The second electric obstacle was the last where you just sprint through a bunch of dangling wires (not all were live, so you could possibly make it through unscathed) to the finish line.  I made it all the way to the last couple wires and one hit me in the neck and I went down face first into the mud.  Anyway, little side story there...I went to dr office a couple days later because side chest was now in agony.  Turns out I fractured 3 ribs slipping on that wall and then went on to finish a Tough Mudder :flex:  Thankfully no injuries of that nature since 

 
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