Pseudonym Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 http://toughmudder.com/events/auckland-2014 - Sat. 26 Apr & Sun. 27 Apr, 2014http://toughmudder.com/obstacles/Those obstacles look pretty mean! Anyone thinking about doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FellowshipOfTheRon Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 used to think it was real waste of time/money "why would you run through mud for fun lol" but yeah actually does look interesting now after some different life experiences... not sure I'd make it through atm anyway but definately looks like one of those where if you're fit you gotta do it to test yourself physically, mentally and technically in some areas. must be popular too first cheaper/discounted deals already sold out and they were all available less than 12 hrs ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gym rat Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 looks very hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmybro1 Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Looks like fun, bloody expensive though! :-O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 All that mud doesn't come cheap, Jimmybro! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmybro1 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 All that mud doesn't come cheap, Jimmybro! I guess Aucklands will pay anything to jump in a puddle of mud, got plenty down here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Our weather's too good for mud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gym rat Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 we got plenty of mud in Dunedin during the winter or when it rains lots during the summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanstyles Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I'm going, got early bird tickets so much cheaper then they are now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted March 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 You'll have to show us your photos afterwards, Ryan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mac Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Will have to GoPro some of it and upload some worthy clips. When we got the early bird it was only around the $80 mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realtalk Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Hopefully they stagger the competitors, I did the tough guy challenge up at wood hill a couple years ago (I know u can't compare) but a problem was the ques on the obstacles were rediculous... I lined up for close to 10minutes for the final swim through the river of mud and didn't even bother climbing the wall just ran round it as Line too big.I'm not doing it anyway so dnt care but just hopefully this doesn't happen for the people who pay good money to race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mac Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 They said they are going to be releasing people who actually want to race earlier than those doing it for run so should be less people and it is about 18k long so people will gradually become more spread out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realtalk Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 18km off road is a long way lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polo Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 There's one similar to this for people who like to travel about. Called blood sweat and fears in Australia. Same thing different name basically Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FellowshipOfTheRon Posted April 25, 2014 Report Share Posted April 25, 2014 good luck to those going this weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalidane Posted April 25, 2014 Report Share Posted April 25, 2014 http://toughmudder.com/events/auckland-2014 - Sat. 26 Apr & Sun. 27 Apr, 2014http://toughmudder.com/obstacles/Those obstacles look pretty mean! Anyone thinking about doing this? Hell to the no. I don't want to progress my ability to run through deep mud. Also, any boot camp should result in you finishing with the rank of private. Not a sweaty t-shirt. And Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccaz Posted April 26, 2014 Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 http://toughmudder.com/events/auckland-2014 - Sat. 26 Apr & Sun. 27 Apr, 2014http://toughmudder.com/obstacles/Those obstacles look pretty mean! Anyone thinking about doing this? Hell to the no. I don't want to progress my ability to run through deep mud. Also, any boot camp should result in you finishing with the rank of private. Not a sweaty t-shirt. Andlol my parents have a farm in auckland, anyone is welcome to run 18km through mud there for 209$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gym rat Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 Saw some footage of it on the news last night .Thought it looked dam bloody hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanstyles Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Photos I found of me and bigmac making our way through it on Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted April 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Awesome! How was the electrocution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanstyles Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Not very fun. There were two shock ones, one where you crawl through mud getting shock and one you run through. Gives you a few good zaps. The worst I thought was the ice pool you have to swim through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted April 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 Yeah.... The photos looked good, but you're not selling me on it now, bro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngapuhi strong Posted May 7, 2014 Report Share Posted May 7, 2014 was a guy on 3news tonight crying about getting shocked,funny that running through electic wire gives you shock lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZIDE Posted May 7, 2014 Report Share Posted May 7, 2014 The Battle of Majnoon was not nearly as widely documented as Hussein's use of vast chemical weapons arsenals on Iraq's rebellious Kurds, whose poisoned bodies littering the roadsides have been shown time and again on Western television during the past 10 days. Nor was it as well-publicized as the Iraqi leader's devastating ''War of the Cities'' missile attacks on schools, homes and mosques throughout Iran during the eight-year war.In fact, in the Majnoon battle there were very few shots fired and only a handful of artillery barrages. They were hardly needed, given the creative killing methods devised by the Iraqi army for the occasion.''You wait until nighttime, and you will see how we are killing these Iranian dogs,'' an Iraqi officer said with a broad grin. ''We are frying them like eggplants.''He then took us on a tour of dozens of thick electrical cables his troops had lain through the marshy battlefield, a spaghetti network that snaked in and out of the patchwork of lagoons. He showed us the mammoth electric generators that fed the exposed power lines from positions just behind the Iraqi front lines. And, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guards made their regular evening advance, the officer and his men demonstrated the macabre genius of their invention.Iraqi gun batteries fired just enough artillery to force the Revolutionary Guards from their marsh boats, and, when hundreds of them had been forced to continue their advance through the lagoons on foot, the men manning the Iraqi generators flipped a few switches and sent thousands of volts of electricity surging through the marshland.Within seconds, hundreds of Iranians were electrocuted.But the horror show did not end there. The following morning, Iraqi troops began another grisly routine that the officer called ''the morning road detail.''They made their way through the marshes, gathering up the dead Iranian soldiers like dynamite fishermen harvesting a day's catch. Working methodically, the Iraqis piled the corpses on top of one another in the water in head-to-toe stacks, five bodies high and five across.Together, the human piles formed long rows, the width of a troop truck, the top layers above the water's surface. Each row extended in a straight line through the marshes from the Iraqis' positions toward the Iranian border. Finally, the rows were sprinkled with lime and covered over with a foot-thick tier of desert sand.It was the Iraqi method of road building, using the bodies of their enemies to construct assault routes for tanks and trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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