EPTI'm going to South Carolina to do this in 6 weeks.
Running my first obstacle course run: RuggedManiac
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WhatisProtoss
Korea (South)2325 Posts
I'm going to South Carolina to do this in 6 weeks. | ||
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Trainrunnef
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WhatisProtoss
Korea (South)2325 Posts
And you get a free entry because of it? It's only a 5K, so it's much shorter than TM, but I've just never done anything with obstacles. I see people on Ninja Warrior fail the warped wall climb all the time. | ||
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
For gear, general shoes you don' care about like Trainrunnef said are great. I tied mine pretty tight, and put a layer of ductape around the laces so my shoes wouldn't fall off. I would also recommend gloves. Mad grip gloves from amazon are great and just cut off the finger tips for drainage. The last thing that helped me was increasing my vertical. I'm 5'7 and jumping as high as possible is really helpful for some of those obstacles otherwise people have to help you. For fitiness, I was running 5-6 miles every other day, and 3 miles in between those days, and could do like 15 pull-ups. None of the obstacles I thought were that hard, but getting shocked by electricity was an experience. Try to get shocked at least once or you'll regret it!  | ||
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WhatisProtoss
Korea (South)2325 Posts
On January 29 2016 06:58 MysteryMeat1 wrote: I did tough Mudder Seattle 2 years ago if you have questions about it! For training, the hardest part is running. Tough Mudder was 12 miles, So I would really focus on making sure your cardio is pretty good. I would also work on doing as many pull-ups as you can, as a lot of obstacle courses are based soley on if you can pull yourself over a wall. For gear, general shoes you don' care about like Trainrunnef said are great. I tied mine pretty tight, and put a layer of ductape around the laces so my shoes wouldn't fall off. I would also recommend gloves. Mad grip gloves from amazon are great and just cut off the finger tips for drainage. The last thing that helped me was increasing my vertical. I'm 5'7 and jumping as high as possible is really helpful for some of those obstacles otherwise people have to help you. For fitiness, I was running 5-6 miles every other day, and 3 miles in between those days, and could do like 15 pull-ups. None of the obstacles I thought were that hard, but getting shocked by electricity was an experience. Try to get shocked at least once or you'll regret it! Thanks! The tips on the shoes and gloves are super useful. I'm actually running Rugged Maniac, which is a 5K. So I just want to experience the obstacles first. I think Tough Mudder is a lot about the 12 mile run. But Rugged has more obstacles. I'm going to take your advice about the increasing vertical and doing pullups. I think it'll really help with the obstacles. Something short of building my own obstacles in my backyard, which I've seen people do for Ninja Warrior. Like this guy did: :O | ||
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