Tough mudder 2014, who did it? Tough mudder 2015, who's up for it?

[McBear]

So DDs DF did tough mudder this year and made it look pretty easy. If you were there, I was the spectator covered in mud after the knob I was spectating decided to give me a bear hug after the mudslides!

I'm fairly certain I want to do it next year. Anyone else game???

toughmudder.co.uk

Seriously, no one???

McBear, I'm seriously tempted. I've been saying for years I want to do it and have never got my ass in gear to train. Now ive finished uni i'm really considering it.

Oooh what course? I'm so very tempted. I talked about switching up my regime last week tho and I haven't even managed to get to the gym!

I'll do it if you do it?

toughmudder.co.uk/events/2015-london-west

I live on the south coast so this is my closest, where abouts are you?

I meant which course at UNi

I thought there was only one in the uk. I'm Northampton so Kettering is my closest

Oh. It actually looks like they don't have one in Kettering next year

Haha, I did a social work BA.

Noooooo. I wonder if they release more dates as this year goes on.

I'm not sure. I'm thinking maybe I should be willing to travel for it?!

I'll email them to ask

Ooooh. Have you got a place of work lined up? I'm going to start looking into whether I can transfer my psychology degree into some base for social work!

Yeah, luckily I've walked straight in to a job working with children who have been sexually exploited, sounds odd but its my dream job.

Oooo exciting. I honestly couldnt imagine working in any other field. God that sounds cheesy

Fuck being cheesy! You've achieved the ultimate! Most people hate their jobs and wish for what you have

Thanks

Right I'm going to do it.

My training plan to start is

Mon AM- run PM- yoga

Tues AM - run PM - Shred lv1

Weds AM - run PM - Shred lv2

Thurs AM - run PM - night off

Fri AM - run PM - shred lv2

Sat AM - run PM - yoga

Sun AM - run PM - Tough mudder training

The runs will be varying distances and pace.

I'm all over this

Ooof. Seems like a lot of training. 2 x a day

I was just gonna go the gym 3/4 times a week. Start at 2k and increase steadily and do weights...

I've got nearly 6 stone to lose (I blame uni lol).

Doing the monkey bars the size I am is NOT going to happen

I think you'll lose that in a week with that amount of exercise

I'm doing one on the 17th August.

Slightly terrified! The only real training I've done is running as I didn't run when I entered it. Up to 9 miles now.

But I ride horses for a living and pole dance/do aerial silks so I'm pretty strong.

Oooh where's that one forever?

Yes DDs DF said upper body strength is extremely important and you should be able to run 20k ideally.

Sounds like you're ready

McBear

Check out The Suffering at Rockingham Castle, lots of different distances over fantastic course

I've not done it myself, but friends and family have.

Well training is on hold for a week i've damaged my trapezius (it wasnt even a bloody excercise related injury).

Well I'm a wuss and am going to set my sights on the local 5k muddy obstacle course next May.

Definitely gonna look at the rockingham one!!! If it's before the next TM I'll be able to check if I'm woman enough

A weeks not too bad. If it helps I didn't get chance to go at all last week.

Is that local one in Scotland, by any chance?

DDs DF has put up some muscly beautiful pics up on Facebook of him doing it. I'm pining

Mcbear - yes it's just near Kilmarnock

Wish it was local to me... It sounds doable

Done my 2nd one on the 14th June and had signed up for Scotland 2015 by lunchtime on the Sunday!
I only started running 6 weeks before hand and shaved 2 hours off last years time. My training buddy had to pull out a week before as she had broken her collar bone so I had promised to do next years one with her any way.
I have a half marathon in October, Deerstalker in March, Rat Race Dirty Weekend (20 miles) in May then Tough Mudder in June . To say I will be training hard for the next year is an understatement.
The plan after next June is to do an ultra marathon (36 miles) in October and then do The Wall (69 miles along Hadrian's Wall in 24 hours) June 2016 so we will be doubling our mileage with each big event we do.