Tough Mudder accomplished !!

Looks like so much fun!

I'm not gonna lie- it was brutal... we were all smiling and laughing the first 2 hour or so, then it was grumpy faces and like - will this torture end! lol.... everytime we thought we were close there was another giant hill !

Congrats!!! I am training for the TM Calgary 2013. What an accomplishment!!

When you say the hill training you did did not help you...what would you do different if you ran again next year?

Again, congrats!

Well a lot of the Tough mudders aren't on ski hills- My friend that did this one plus the one in Ohio said the Ohio was a walk in the park compared to this one since it wasn't on a hill.. Since the hills are so steep you can only walk up them, and I had been running up hills here and there, but basically some of the hills take like 30 min to walk up, and I def wasn't walking on a steep incline for 3 hours training lol... Next year I am doing one in michigan and if I find out its on a ski hill again, I will be doing a lot of stair master or treadmill for an hour on the highest incline for an hour at least 1 x a week

Congratulations on your accomplishment! Very exciting!

You said the hill running didn't help prepare you. Can I ask what you would have done differently in training for this? What would have helped prepare you better?

My daughter and I are in the beginning stages of training. I think we are looking at a year out still. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Well I am sure it did prepare me some, but even with all the activity I did I found it extremely hard- but then again, I'd like to see you find someone that says it was easy--- they don't want to make it easy lol... One of the girls I did it with seemed to struggle much less than me on the hills, and she told me that she spent the last month taking the stairs at her apartment (on the 13th floor) so she did that several times a day and it seemed to help a lot. The obstacles are challenging but you don't need to train for them.. It is really about getting through it mentally, your arms and legs are going to be covered in cuts and bruises and then you will have to use those parts to get through the next obstacle causing a lot of pain. There are tons of posters they put up reminding you its not a race, but a challenge. Go at your own pace, you will pass people, people will pass you, but its all about finishing it. People in my group brought gloves, but tossed them out, I didn't and was fine.
If you can go to a park and practice the monkey bars- that is one of the obstacles, I made it through that one without practicing but, most girls had trouble. I fell off the ring one, but making to the the end of the monkey bars made me feel really good. Next year I will try to complete the ring one.
I saw people of all ages do this race, and there is no reason that someone couldn't finish it - it may take them 6 hours , but they will eventually reach the end!
Honestly I have lost 50 lbs, competed in triathlons, and had a baby recently, and the feeling of accomplishing this was just as great as those accomplishments. I rec this for anyone and everyone!!