Tough Mudder

Adam joined up with a bunch of friends to create a Tough Mudder team. Presenting the Goose Creek Warriors.

These few proud souls joined with around 24,000 other crazy folk to conquer an  obstacle course that was just shy of 11 miles. Here they are taking the Tough Mudder Pledge. (Adam's group was assigned a start time of 10:00am. The guy in the dress #54 was running the course for the second time that day.)

You can see Adam on the left preparing to conquer one of the early obstacles. Many thanks to Lisa Hagberg for capturing these photos and sending them our way. 

I love the glop of mud at Adam's feet in this action shot.

The Tough Mudder course is designed after those that British Special Ops Forces use for training. Adam conquered 20 obstacles including:

Arctic Enema 

Dirty Ballerina

Kiss of Mud

Berlin Walls

Bale Bonds

Hold Your Wood

Trench Warfare

Walk the Plank

Log Jammin'

King of the Mountain

Electric Eel

Underwater Tunnels

Mud Mile

Boa Constrictor

Funky Monkey

Twinkle Toes

Everest

Electroshock Therapy

This is the picture of a man who carried large logs, jumped across trenches, ran and crawled through live wires, trudged across an ice bath, army-crawled through a culvert half full of water. This is one Tough Mudder. 

Here he is with a few other survivors. 

The kids and I tried to meet Adam at the finish line, but the event was so popular, the site (a farm) so remote, and the police presence so inadequate that we couldn't get near the place. Between that and a HUGE storm that blew in at the end of Adam's race, the organizers had to close the course before the second day's teams could compete. We were happy to see him alive and (mostly) well when we met up at the church to collect him. Despite the deluge that had taken off the most apparent mud, it was astounding to see the amount of muddy water that came off this runner's gear when I rinsed them out with the hose later that day. Proud of you for surviving with a smile, babe.