My Bride and i finished a 5k obstacle course on a Ski resort in CT called the Fugitive. The theme is escaping prison. It starts out with people in holding pen with wrists zip tied. After escaping the zip ties and the holding there is a long climb up a mountain and 15+ obstacles. The mountain was brutal. Anyone interested in cardio, strength, and building survival skills should check out mud runs and obstacle courses. This was our 9 th. Next week, God willing, we hit the Spartan Sprint for more butt kicking endurance work in Amesbury Mass on another mountain. Maybe ill see you there.
Hoo! Sounds like lots of fun, besides any cardio benefit. Bad luck there's nothing like this here, unless you want to go stealing the neighbour's watermelons and waiting for him to find out Added to my personal list of "things to do as soon as you get the chance".
There probably is something close, mud run maybe. You just need to hook up with the running community. I thought there was nothing around here, but I've just this weekend found 2 night runs and a mud run in near by cities.
I've been told I'm doing this next year http://www.totalwarrior.co.uk/ I've never ran that far in my life! I hope to god the person that want me to go wears really short shorts. That way i'll just follow her
My wife really wants to do a couple of these dang things. I got enough of it in the Marine Corps honestly, only their courses aren't built and inspected, they're "courses" with obstacles that were just built through swamps with all the natural wildlife (snakes and gators) just hanging around with random pieces of serpentine wire strung about. The organized runs like the spartan race look like they're meant to be fun instead of a haze fest though. I would like to do a serious mud one in the winter time. My wife hates the cold and she'll probably never ask to do it again if she does a run in the cold where she's wet/muddy : P.
Doing those runs in full gear absolutely suck. Not to mention you have to clean all of it later. Nothing like a barracks room half the size of a hotel room with 3 occupants all trying to dry their muddy, wet gear out : P.
Oh yes and then cleaning the barracks and painting all of the gear that may have gotten chips of green scraped off of gear that was raggedy when i was issued the thing....lol I turned in all of my gear in better shape than it was issued! Plus, i payed for my gear that i wrote my last four on because apparently when sgt's tell you to write your last 4 and your name on the gear it makes it unserviceable!..... hahahahaha
