Challenge #6 – Tough Mudderfudders

Upon hearing us facing the challenge of a marathon by the end of the year, a group of our mates, led through the recommendations of Ryan Agnew, have suggested we man up and do something a little more adventurous than just running. We told them to bring it. Bitches.

Hence a new challenge has been passed onto us, and we believe it to be a heap of fun and worthy of any year long fitness challenge!

Challenge #6 – To complete a Tough Mudder’s Challenge

For us, the event will take place north of Sydney in mid-September, perfect timing for a fitness test in between the half and full marathons. It involves not only running a 12mile (20km) course, but scaling walls, traversing rope bridges, wading through mud pools, scampering up half-pipes, more mud, ice water, jumps, underwater tunnels, and even electric shocks and fire.

Wow. Believe it or not, this sounds way more appetising to us than the thought of plodding 42.1km, but hey, that’s a separate challenge.

Here is a promo video of the race:

In preparation for the contest, we must aim to cross-train our bodies to withstand not only the 20km of running, but the variety of challenges along the way. To say that we will do push-ups and sit-ups alone is a laugh, and we will document our training efforts as we go along. Maybe even with photos of the effects. God knows the beer challenge is adding to our (Matt’s) pot-bellies already.

Also a pre-requisite is a team name and costume. And, as a formality on the day, there is a Mohawk competition that we will steadily grow luxurious locks for in order to look our most ridiculous on the day. We are even thinking of buying and wearing a GoPro camera on the day to capture footage of the entire race, and hope to publish a time lag video of the entire event. Fingers crossed!

And to save money, we need 6-10 people on our team. SO, because he suggested it so readily, and a few other mates jumped on the bandwagon, we now have a crew of young strong gents on our side including Ryan, and we aim to push eachother to the brink of our training capabilities, and then help eachother get through the entire race on the day.

Wish us, and our compadres the best of luck. Bring it.

~ Connor & Matt