Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Tough Mudder Approaches

I am embarking on a very big event here soon, my Tough Mudder. My good friend Jeremy Zenon tuned me in to this last year after the 2011 Houston Half Marathon. The course that we are attempting has been published here. According to the race reports and data, there is only a 68% completion rate of all participants, and the top 5% of finishers are invited to Tough Mudder World Event which is an endurance event. I think I am in good enough physical and psychological condition to compete in a 24 or 48 hour endurance event, but can I finish in the top 5% of the Tough Mudder? I certainly hope so! The event is October 8, our heat starts at 11:00 a.m. (hoping for some reasonable temperatures). We registered almost 6 months in advance and this is the earliest start time we can get, the next one we will register 1 year out, I want an 8:00 a.m. start so the course is fresh and the mud is unscathed. As the terrain gets abused it will be harder and harder to wade through. I have 1 month to finalize my training, my running is strong, my physicality is descent, I haven't lifted weights but between P90X and Insanity, I am thinking I should be good. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous as a cat, but I am prepared and that's all I can be at this point. Any particulars beyond this I am just circumcising mosquito's!

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