TOUGH MUDDER at Mount Snow VT on Saturday 7/14/12
There were 23-30 obstacles.
I don’t remember them all.
The Ten most difficult obstacles: (Not in order of
difficulty)
1.) Kiss of Mud (Crawl under barbed wire): I thought there
was electrified wires above if I remember correctly and I got zapped a couple
times.
2.) Trench Warfare (Belly down crawl through earthen
tunnels): Was narrow and dark. You
didn’t know how long you would be crawling for and it was quite a while. Midway I was wondering if the tunnel would
collapse if people walked over the earth above me. Not my favorite obstacle.
3.) Berlin Walls #1 (Wooden 8’ walls): Had to climb over
these. Very difficult I thought. 4.) Electric Eel (Crawl under electrified
wire): Maybe this was the one where we had to crawl in the water and mud along
with rocks while trying to avoid the electrical wires overhead. It was a decent enough distance to
crawl.
5.) Cliffhanger (Steep climb up a ski hill): A lot of steep
climbs up hills and down! You might
think going down hill is easy – Not. You
had to focus on trying to stop or running slowly as without trying you could
pick up speed and lose control along the way.
The hills up and down were a challenge.
6.) Dark Lightning (Crawl under barbed wire into a
blacked-out box of dangling electric wires & rain): There was a sign that said
stay low. I couldn’t understand why
because it seemed like I had more room to utilize. It was totally dark. I think there were turns – don’t remember if
that was this tunnel. Found out after I
got shocked why I needed to stay low…Okay then!
I’ll stay low. Every once in a
while there was “Lightning” and you could see the electric wires hanging. Couple more shocks. Okay, guess getting used to it a little
bit.
7.) Funky Monkey (Monkey bar crossing): About 15 bars going
up and 15 bars going down I think. I did
not get anywhere near the midpoint before falling into the water. This was difficult for me. I definitely would need to work on upper body
to get that done.
8.) Berlin Walls #2 (Wooden 9’ walls): Well the 8’ walls
were tough enough…9’ walls more so. Same
concept – get over the walls. I made it
over these (not gracefully or without incident).
9.) Everest (Greased up ¼ pipe): The most difficult
obstacle! The concept: Get over the
top. Good chance you will need help from
the people on top of Everest (1/4 pipe) making it over.
10.) Electroshock Therapy (Run through electrified wires):
Hmmm. Well, my least favorite.
Aftermath: Cuts and scrapes on knees and elbows. Blister left hand. Nose scraped and swollen (Berlin
walls). Well I said I didn’t handle
those very well. Getting up was easier –
ah, but getting down. Now that was the
dilemma.
Pain Upper Body post Tough Mudder: in the deltoids, pecs,
biceps, abs, obliques and under the armpits due to all the crawling through and
pulling with the arms while upper body doing most to all of the work at times
depending on the obstacle. Regarding
lower body – just quads.
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