Complete a Tough Mudder or obstacle race

“The experience in itself was a truly amazing one that emphasized teamwork rather than individual strength. And this wasn’t just teamwork amongst your own team members but across every team line there was. Everyone taking part in the event wanted to help you and see you succeed, whether it was during the log carry or getting over a wall or swinging on a rope, or whatever really. There were no teams on the course, only friends. Friends you never knew you had but friends nonetheless. It is a truly humbling feeling to know that you can ask any one of those hundreds of people for help and they wouldn’t hesitate to give it. I am not sure that I have ever been part of such a thing. The running sucked but that didn’t even seem to matter because once we did the first obstacle, I knew I would do another Tough Mudder and that I would be perfectly fine getting through this one.”

“Full Disclosure: I am the kind of person that prefers to run races on my own. When I train, I put my headphones in and aside from a wave or two to passing runners or bikers, don’t interact much with anyone. When I’ve run races like Spartan Race , Savage Race, Battlefrog, and other OCR events, I prefer to put my head down and focus on my own race. Tough Mudder is an event that forces you to work with others, at least on some of the obstacles. There are Tough Mudder obstacles like Human Pyramid, where you have to get up an inclined wall in which the base is in a mud pit; you can’t get a running start! So, you have to work with others at that obstacle to push and lift them to the top. Then, hopefully you can find some people to help you do the same. Tough Mudder is not a race, but a challenge (which is something they stress before you start). The obstacles are actually a ton of fun, challenging enough for a wide range of people, and I actually found myself having a lot of fun when I “competed” for the first time.”