Tough Mudder

[ctjet]

16km sounds more like it from what i've heard too. The map isnt very helpful liek that

Well, in almost exactly 48 hours ill be lined up at the start about to get very dirty

Any tips of tricks anybdy has heard would be nice. The two things i was told to do were to tape my shoes on, and carry paw paw ointment for irratated skin.

[Birds]

Take a tub of vaseline with you lol. Personally I'd smear that all over myself.

[ctjet]

Well fcuk me

Less than 24 hours before start time and i've never felt more ready for anything!

Back feels good, legs arent sore, and ready to have a laugh

For anybody else going, ill be wearing bright orange shoes i bought from america on the cheap to destroy, so dont be afraid to hi5 on the way through.

[75coupe]

conserve your energy at the start and set your own pace...

should be good, Ive seen the build process of the course in melbourne... cant wait for sydney...

[ctjet]

Totally, this is going to be a slow job for me, the obsticles is what im looking forward to

cant wait to take a running dive (assassins creed style) off the platform into the water

This is too cool, i serioulsy cant wait for this

test fires up suburban superheroes for tough mudder competition

[chubs]

good luck to you brave souls giving this thing a shot as much as it looks like fun i dont think my fitness level would cope atm.

[chubs]

found that on youtube (its of the american 1 though) looks awesome

[dasic1]

I watched the video yesterday, looks like a lot of fun

I pick up a chest harness for my gopro the other day so will hopefully get some good video.

ctjet what time are you starting?

Edited March 30, 2012 by dasic1

[ctjet]

owwwwwwwwwww... my body

[chubs]

did you make it???

[dasic1]

I honestly dont think it was that tough, they talked it up a lot. I rolled my ankle at about the 8km mark I think (at the top of the greased lighting bit) and still managed to finish. Looks like I have broken a bone in my foot so going to get xrays done tomorrow

The electric shock was no worse than someone flicking you.

Still was a lot of fun and will be doing it again, hopefully the Sydney one in September

[ctjet]

did you make it???

i believe the saying is... like a boss

what a truely excellent way to spend a day

lucky i left in one of the first groups, i heard it was absolute bedlam in the groups that went from 10am onwards

will definately be doing it again, was exactly what i was hoping for

Edited April 1, 2012 by ctjet

[dasic1]

By the time I was getting to the obstacles there was a bit of a wait. Worst was at Everest 50min wait.

[ctjet]

Fcuk that, I'm surprised more people didn't skip it

The ice bath and the swim killed me, shocked the shit out of my system

Had a look through the facebook pics, as you don't need to log in, and there's some great shots in there. The teletubby guys were funny as shit

[dasic1]

theres some good videos on youtube as well

Im pretty keen to go do the one in Sydney now

[WYTSKY]

Unforunetly I only heard about this 2 days before the event from a bloke at gym.

Sounds exactly like the stuff I enjoy, testing/pushing myself etc...

Would be keen for the next one in VIC whenever that is, only thing holding me back is my runnning, at a fast pace I can get 3kms in 12mins then die or 5kms in 25ish miins then die....

but some people say the running is not so bad as when it is a bit busy, you will jog, wait x mins becasue an event is busy, do the event and continue running, so you get that time to catch your breath.

Upperbody stregnth etc would not be an issue.

Birds - if theres one near melb in the future we could do it ?

Also, I looked into a few others. I fcking wish we had this here! would be awesome! CLICK ->>>>> http://runforyourlives.com/ http://www.theaustra...o-1226158008430

[ctjet]

If you go early, you dont wait for anything. I didnt wait at any obsticle for one second

You dont need to be a strong runner at all to do this, just generally fit and have a good attitude. Because it was very sunny the course was relatively good fun, if you had to do it in the rain and wind, then thats a whole mental aspect that i dont think many people faced this time.

[Rob260]

Just found this thread -I'm signed up for Sydney in September, pretty pumped!

[ctjet]

what time of the day?

[Rob260]

what time of the day?

9am Sunday