This Weekend Is My Toughest Run Yet!

Tough Mudder is this weekend. For those of you that don't know how crazy it is, let me describe it to you. Picture a 10 mile run, that is actually promised to be a bit longer, how long? You won't know until you get there. Matter of fact, you know nothing is for sure. It's designed to make you question everything. So the event describes a couple of the obstacles but you don't know the order or what will be there for sure. You go to the website for any hope, but instead find this: An evil website that explains that there are over 20+ obstacles and shows 24 obstacles that could be on the run. So now you're in a weird unprepared dizzy. Will I get shocked? Probably. Will I go through freezing water? No doubt. Will I need to practice for the longest set of monkey bars I have ever seen or the set of ring swings they call "Hangin' Tough". What kind of American Gladiator craziness is this? So you're fit. Fit enough? Well, it doesn't matter because you also need to be mentally prepared. Mentally prepared? That's what's written in the section titled "How Fit Do I Need To Be To Do Tough Mudder?"

Is the picture a bit much? Well too bad. It's too late, you've signed up and you'll never be ready!

I did prepare. I've been part of Y-Mudder. A group at work specializing in training for the Tough Mudder. I also happened to like it a lot. It's a rigorous program that I wish I was doing before I even decided to do this run. And I've done quite a few mud runs. I'm also pretty good at monkey bars and scaling walls. I don't want to brag but I can scale a ten foot wall pretty easily. It's part of the parkour training I do.

So will I be okay? Probably. Just a little muddy, wet, shocked and cold. Not a big deal, I tell myself. :)

-L. Vera