Has Anyone Participated in the Tough Mudder?

[MissU28]

My tough mudder is in two weeks from Sunday. I'm scared

[Henry]

My tough mudder is in two weeks from Sunday. I'm scared

Mine's two weeks from Saturday. I'll tell you how it goes.

[MissU28]

Mine's two weeks from Saturday. I'll tell you how it goes.

I don't know why our guy in charge didn't make it for the Saturday race. Doesn't he know Sunday is the start of football season??? UGH. But yes, please let me know how it is. What have you been doing to train? I'm about to finish a round of Insanity and I've done a little bit of running, but nothing close to 12 miles.

[Pick6]

Mine's two weeks from Saturday. I'll tell you how it goes.

I am doing it that Saturday as well. My team's start time is 10am.

[mattsb84]

Doing mine in October...first time. Going with a group from work.

For those of you that have done it; how did you train for it? I've never liked running, but will normally do two days of cardio doing 2-2.5 miles at 8min pace. Was thinking of tacking on running a mile after lifting to help get my legs acclimated to the running bit.

[GoSkins561]

Tough Mudder mid-atlantic, my group heads out around 9:20, what time are you guys running?

I don't think it seems like its going to be that hard, especially compared to a half marathon. From what I understand, unless you jump out in front with an early group, there is a lot of standing in line waiting to cross obstacles.

[MissU28]

I think my wave is at 1pm on Sunday

[GoSkins561]

Doing mine in October...first time. Going with a group from work.

For those of you that have done it; how did you train for it? I've never liked running, but will normally do two days of cardio doing 2-2.5 miles at 8min pace. Was thinking of tacking on running a mile after lifting to help get my legs acclimated to the running bit.

IMO, running is a key ingredient to getting through this thing feeling good at the end. This is a 12 mile endurance challege, if I were you i would work on building my mileage up to 8 or 9 miles before the mudder.

[skinsfan_1215]

I'm running Saturday too, not sure what time. I've had a crazy couple months, limited training time, and I'm coming in grossly unprepared. So I'll be the guy everyone is passing (and hopefully not the one injured).

[MissU28]

There are 15 people in my group, but I think some of the guys who are in the military will be leaving us in the dust. No matter, the rest of us will have a grand old time trying to survive.

[mattsb84]

Howd you guys do this weekend?

[Pick6]

Howd you guys do this weekend?

The one everyone is talking about isn't until Sept. 8th.

[Forehead]

Good luck to all. I did a 5 mile mud run in VA Beach two summers ago and had to walk through most of it because I didn't train for running in sand, which was about 60-70% of the course. I was exhausted within the first mile. I'm not sure how to even simulate that for training purposes.

[Henry]

Yeah I'm doing the mid-Atlantic one. My group is running at 11am I think. There are five of us and one is a doctor, so there's that.

I did a long run of 13 miles this past Saturday and I'll now be gearing down the running. I do P90X resistance work once or twice a week and cardio (either P90X or tae kwon do class) twice a week. I'd say I'm definitely more of a runner/cardio guy than a strength guy. Running and jumping I should be ok with. I'm guessing lifting heavy things, pulling myself over walls and swinging across monkey bars and stuff will be my biggest problem. That and I'm too old for this ****. I'll let you all know.

[Stugein]

I've done 6 Warrior Dashes. I'd like to do Tough Mudder one day but my endurance isn't up to it yet. I can roll for ~4-5mi. before I'm out of gas. I'm working on it though.