The Return of a WTM Friend - T Minus 4 Days

This Tough Mudder will be memorable for many reasons.  One of the reasons this will be extra special is that Chris will be flying in from Texas to run with us.  Technically, he is visiting family and will also run with us.  We ran into Chris at WTM14 standing in line to register.  Chris was running by himself and without a pit crew.  He was adopted on the spot and we pitched tents in the same spot and kept tabs on each other throughout the 24 hour race.  Chris is incredibly fast and has the distinction of running 50 miles at each of the past to World's Toughest Mudders.  It will be fun to catch up with Chris and also run an event that does not have an insane sandstorm and last 24 hours.

Who knows...Chris may actually be the long lost fourth member we were initially looking for.  We look forward to seeing everyone out on the course in four days!

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Ice Ice Baby - T Minus 5 Days

The time has come for the team of three to reunite and run what may be our only Tough Mudder of the year in our home state of Virginia.  Actually that is no longer the home state for all three of us as D Dub C has moved to North Carolina.  The countdown is on and TM Virginia is just 5 short days away.  The map is up and you will notice the arsenal of both new and revised obstacles that were promised for the coming year.


Some of these obstacle revisions are exciting like Funky Monkey 2.0.  We sampled this obstacle at last year's World's Toughest Mudder.  It was a bit flawed with bungee cords and to be honest I was quite flawed in my approach.  Other obstacles are less exciting like the revised Arctic Enema 2.0.  This obstacle is not scary but the thought of being that cold just sticks in your head on the entire course.  The thought of now sliding under a chain link fence into the ice water is not something any of us are looking forward to. This is being billed as the scariest ice experience since the Ice Ice Baby world tour.  (Full Disclosure:  I did attend one of his concerts back in the day)

To get through Arctic Enema 2.0 the team will undoubtedly have to STOP...COLLABORATE...and LISTEN because Tough Mudder is back with a brand new invention. I'm sure we will all weigh in on the obstacles during the aftermath.  Until then enjoy the fact that now those lyrics will be stuck in your head all day!

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