Tough Mudder ....  Check that off the bucket list!

I completed the Tough Mudder race with my team, Team Ocelot 1, in a little over four hours. The race lived up to its reputation. It was a grueling difficult course and there were points that I questioned my decision to get out of bed that morning. To make things a bit more challenging (to say the least), was the cold weather (about 60 degrees), mixed with high winds at times, which made it feel like freezing. Being wet and muddy for the entire course had most of us fairly close to hypothermia by the end. Of course, once the gun went off, there was no looking back. Everyone gave it their all. 10-12 miles running and 22 obstacles and all arrived to the finish line in one piece. Aside from one broken nose, and lots of uncontrollable shivering, none of us were worse for the wear.

I give all the credit to my team. We stayed together through the entire course and regrouped at every obstacle to support each other. We were very fortunate to have a Seal Team Commander on our team. He very quietly and humbly led the way and with one arm always out to pull you over the next obstacle. Without a word, he established who was in charge and all of us were happy to follow his lead. He was exactly the guy you wanted to be on the course with. There is no doubt in my mind that he would have ifnished the course in half the time without us.

I carried a camera on the course and got some decent video and pictures. Some of the footage is underwater as I would struggle to swim up from the bottom of a big drop... doing my best to not run out of air and/or drop the camera. 


Some pictures: (not sure who the guy is in his underwear... but he ran the entire race that way!)

WARNING: Some profanity.. sorry in advance.

See if you can guess who the Seal is!