One Tough Mudder

Eddie has been training for Tough Mudder for months now. Tough Mudder sounded insane to me, but he was determined. Tough Mudder is about 10 miles long or so and has 20 obstacles. Every Tough Mudder race is slightly different depending on the location. We drove up to Beatty, Nevada (about 2 hours North of us on the 95) early this morning. Eddie talked a few of his friends into signing up with him so Matt and his wife, Misty, Russ and his friend Chris piled into our van at 6:30 this morning.

Misty and I got spectator passes so we could walk along the course and take pictures when we could find the guys. I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

A picture together before it started.

Just before jumping the wall to start

They named themselves Team Deadbeat and at the last minute got orange shirts and wrote the name on the back so we could find them. Orange was a popular color.

Arctic Enema aka the ice bath. Obstacle #4 and hard to get pictures of because they were up so high. You can just barely see Eddie climbing in.

Matt and Eddie (in the back) coming out and freezing cold.

 

There was a good chunk of time where the guys were running and doing a few obstacles that we couldn't get to very easily. Misty and I waited and kept watch to see if we could spot them running across a section of the trail. They stopped for a picture before continuing on where we caught up with them and were able to get good pictures of some of the obstacles.

Dirty Ballerina

Waiting to start the Electric Eel. The yellow ropes shocked them as they went under.

The Funky Monkey was basically monkey bars that went up to a peak and then down again. A lot of other people struggled with it, but check out the last half of Eddie's turn in the video.

 

 

Human Gecko, none of the Deadbeats made it across. This was a tough one.

The Mud Mile: Eddie did not like this one and the stink was awful. I think the mud was more like cowpie soup since we were on a ranch and evidence of the cows was everywhere.

The guys though this was a 10 mile course, but I guess they were misinformed.

 

This obstacle was one that Eddie talked about a lot. I was impressed that all 4 of the Deadbeats made it up the first time.

Electroshock Therapy and the last obstacle leading to the finish line. As far as we could tell and from what we heard no one got shocked on this one. It seems that they were having issues and it was shut off.

All done and very muddy. Some tired, but happy Tough Mudders.

Cleaned up and hanging out.

Tough Mudder in training.

Eddie had a great time and is not too banged up. He is planning on doing it again next year. I had a lot of fun spectating too. I do not have any plans to join Eddie in doing Tough Mudder next year. It would probably kill me. Maybe I can try something shorter first, but that would require me to actually get off my lazy butt and do some real exercise. :) There will be professional photos available at some point on the website as well.  Congrats to all the Tough Mudders that made it through this weekend.