Tough mudder today!
01-22-2012, 09:19 PM
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It's not the age, it's the mileage... :O
I am 30. It was not that bad. I'm in a lot better shape than I thought, but some of those guys out there were PT studs.
On Saturday they shut down an event because a dude got hurt pretty bad, they had to call the ambulance.
I need to put a little lotion on them... they're almost all healed up.
I am 30. It was not that bad. I'm in a lot better shape than I thought, but some of those guys out there were PT studs.
On Saturday they shut down an event because a dude got hurt pretty bad, they had to call the ambulance.
I need to put a little lotion on them... they're almost all healed up.
01-22-2012, 11:48 PM
#32
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Nice work Mark. I have done a few things like that but not all in one challenge.
Polar or Ice swims...hard to do with a water logged snowmobile suit on and steel toe boots. The boots are what put me ahead of others when it came time for the obstacles. There was no rules about going through instead of around or over the barriers.
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Proud of you junior!
Polar or Ice swims...hard to do with a water logged snowmobile suit on and steel toe boots. The boots are what put me ahead of others when it came time for the obstacles. There was no rules about going through instead of around or over the barriers.
.Proud of you junior!
01-23-2012, 07:13 AM
#33
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Mad, cool pics. With all that water stuff, how was the weather temp? Manageable or were you freezing the whole time?
Your legs are pretty moisturized for that desert environment. When I go out to AZ I turn to jerky. I. Need. Humidity.
Hope that guy that got hurt is ok. Any word on what happened?
Your legs are pretty moisturized for that desert environment. When I go out to AZ I turn to jerky. I. Need. Humidity.
Hope that guy that got hurt is ok. Any word on what happened?
01-23-2012, 07:19 AM
#34
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Thanks, Pop. I'd love to do one again. I would be cool with the ice swims if I was suited... I was in shorts (still doesn't sound right) and a t shirt.
Shorts, it was pretty cool Saturday with some rain. Low 60's in the morning, and the temp fell to mid 50's in the afternoon. It was only bad in the water and right after them, you stayed moving. The worst part was the end, trying to be hard enough to hose off with that freezing water and not moving. My lips were blue by the time I got done.
I wouldn't say moisturized, they look pretty rough usually. I had just spread some salve on them
Don't know what happened, but they said he was ok. Probably fell off an obstacle. I can see people getting hurt out there.
Shorts, it was pretty cool Saturday with some rain. Low 60's in the morning, and the temp fell to mid 50's in the afternoon. It was only bad in the water and right after them, you stayed moving. The worst part was the end, trying to be hard enough to hose off with that freezing water and not moving. My lips were blue by the time I got done.
I wouldn't say moisturized, they look pretty rough usually. I had just spread some salve on them
Don't know what happened, but they said he was ok. Probably fell off an obstacle. I can see people getting hurt out there.
01-23-2012, 08:47 AM
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Way to go! The only thing I'd change was to wear a nice new white shirt. Come to Dallas and join our team for 3/31!
Yes, people do get hurt! In Texas, Oct, air life transported, 1 unconscious, 3 w/broken bones.
Yes, people do get hurt! In Texas, Oct, air life transported, 1 unconscious, 3 w/broken bones.
01-23-2012, 07:22 PM
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lol
Mad, you think using the words 'shorts' in sentences is weird. It throws me for a loop when I read 'shorts' too. I have to double take the sentence to be certain I understand the context
And saliva is a good moisturizer. lol
Mad, you think using the words 'shorts' in sentences is weird. It throws me for a loop when I read 'shorts' too. I have to double take the sentence to be certain I understand the context
And saliva is a good moisturizer. lol
01-23-2012, 08:37 PM
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01-23-2012, 09:03 PM
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01-30-2012, 10:09 AM
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Well, I dropped my son off for his bout with the Tough Mudder Friday nite in Edna, Tx. He ran it Saturday mornin with a time of 3 hours and 10 seconds. He said that it was a GAS. He only had 2 obstacles that he really questioned himself as to why he was doing it. One was the belly crawl under electrified barbed wire while crawling thru an ice bed and the other was the major electrical wire obstacle. He said the ice bath made him shiver for over 2 miles afterwards and the electrical wire obstacle dropped him and his other 4 buds just as they were about to exit it. He said the shock that they got knocked the crap out of all of them and put them all face first in the muck.
All in all, he said he would do it again, but will only do it in the summertime or spring. he said that the water obstacles were placed just so you would dry out and then get re-immersed, keeping you cold the whole way.
From the pics, he had a great time, and it was all for a great cause.
Gary
All in all, he said he would do it again, but will only do it in the summertime or spring. he said that the water obstacles were placed just so you would dry out and then get re-immersed, keeping you cold the whole way.
From the pics, he had a great time, and it was all for a great cause.
Gary
01-30-2012, 10:22 AM
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Well, I dropped my son off for his bout with the Tough Mudder Friday nite in Edna, Tx. He ran it Saturday mornin with a time of 3 hours and 10 seconds. He said that it was a GAS. He only had 2 obstacles that he really questioned himself as to why he was doing it. One was the belly crawl under electrified barbed wire while crawling thru an ice bed and the other was the major electrical wire obstacle. He said the ice bath made him shiver for over 2 miles afterwards and the electrical wire obstacle dropped him and his other 4 buds just as they were about to exit it. He said the shock that they got knocked the crap out of all of them and put them all face first in the muck.
All in all, he said he would do it again, but will only do it in the summertime or spring. he said that the water obstacles were placed just so you would dry out and then get re-immersed, keeping you cold the whole way.
From the pics, he had a great time, and it was all for a great cause.
Gary
All in all, he said he would do it again, but will only do it in the summertime or spring. he said that the water obstacles were placed just so you would dry out and then get re-immersed, keeping you cold the whole way.
From the pics, he had a great time, and it was all for a great cause.
Gary
Gary thanks for the update. Sounds like electrical is the shocker of the event.
har har har
In these watery muddy events do people figure out the clothing? I mean, seems better to wear tight fitting drifit type gear so that the moisture doesn't make the clothes sag off your body or drag you around. Plus it should wick water off to dry faster than cotton clothing would. Kind of like the stuff they wear in Iron Man competitions.
I don't know, just guessing.
01-30-2012, 05:49 PM
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[QUOTE=Shorts;3072113]Gary thanks for the update. Sounds like electrical is the shocker of the event.
har har har
Yeah Shorts, it was a Hair Raising experience for his newly acquired mohawk
As far as clothing he wore a pair of neoprene shorts and t-shirt, which he shed after 1st water hazard. he said that the neoprene really helped him slide through some of the mud events and some of the plastic culvert spots....
Gary
har har har
Yeah Shorts, it was a Hair Raising experience for his newly acquired mohawk
As far as clothing he wore a pair of neoprene shorts and t-shirt, which he shed after 1st water hazard. he said that the neoprene really helped him slide through some of the mud events and some of the plastic culvert spots....
Gary