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TMXMOTORSPORTS · 08-10-2012, 01:43 PM

My daughter and 2 of her freinds went to a thing called Rugged Maniac they had a blast.

tomtom88 · 08-10-2012, 04:59 PM

I will be participating in one of the Colorado events next year, I wanted to this year but I was out of town at the time.

InfiniteEclipse · 08-10-2012, 05:48 PM

Both the Warrior Dash (that I did) and the toughmudder are held at ski resorts in Ontario, meaning you're climbing up and down the mountain throughout the course. I consider myself athletic and I workout religiously - The obstacles are fun and in the case of Warrior, they're the easiest part... still, you can't help but get winded running under the blazing heat of the sun up and down the mountain. It's a challenge for sure

timmytard · 08-10-2012, 06:34 PM

Easy peezy Japaneezy.

If you think this is tough, I had to go to Wilderness camp as a teenager.

When I was 16 a friend & I were jumped by three 18 year olds, we pummeled their asses. One of the other guys happened to become def in one ear, from a well placed roundhouse kick to the dome. They just picked the wrong kids to fuck with, my friend & I had been in kickboxing together for 4 years @ this point.
It was not an option, it was through Corrections. We had to do that shit everyday.(minus the electricity) At first it was super shitty, you were a criminal & they treated you as such. But after the half way point, you became a team.

Now it became Wilderness survival, we got to rock climb, repel huge cliffs, portage lakes & sleep on the tops of snow covered peaks. They even had an obstacle course about 100 feet up in the forest.(picture Ewok village)

It was 8 weeks long. The final week we had to spend 4 days by yourself not a group with no food & only 1 liter of water

They told us if we seen anyone, not to go up & talk to them. We were so far up in the mountains that no one would expect to see people where we were. While I was on my solo, I heard a 4x4 coming up the mountain, of course I ran over & talked to them. Well so did my instructor, when we got back to camp, I got reamed out in front of everyone & was told I was going to have to do it all over again, 8 weeks with a new instructor & group of bad kids.

I felt so shitty, I could have died. It wasn't near as bad the second time, just because I had just finished doing it with a diff group.

@ this point I was close to the instructors in conditioning & knowledge.
I knew what was expected from us as a group & more importantly I knew what not to do. You couldn't even use slang while speaking or you would get push-ups for you & your group.

Still the first 4 weeks they treated you like a criminal, & was nothing but hard labor, digging out stumps larger than SUV's.

After the half way point, we got to do all the fun stuff again. Since I had already done it all, I got to be the guy who showed all the other kids how it was supposed to be done.

@ the time it wasn't that much fun, but looking back on it now, it was awesome.(not the labor part) I think every kid should have to do it.
There are programs similar to it for non criminals, & if you have a kid I think you should sign them up for it. They will thank you for it later in life, probably not so much @ the time though.

There is nothing in this world that can stop a group of determined people from accomplishing. NOTHING.

I wouldn't be the indestructible fearless lunatic that I am today, if I hadn't been forced to do it, twice.

Toughmudder is just playin' in the mud with your friends. That's it, that's all.

TT

That program has since been shut down because a few kids died.

I almost forgot, about ten years later I was working in the film industry & got to go back there.
When you graduated from wilderness camp your group had to make some kind of plaque.
When I went back, I searched for my groups & I found it.
Since it was shut down permanently, I asked the guy in charge of letting us in, if I could take my plaque home. He didn't have a problem with that since it was mine anyways.

So I have my groups @ my house.

This is the weight of the world on my shoulders!

TT

IdahoFreshies · 08-10-2012, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baseline6

from a fitness stand point I think its a pretty cool course to test your fitness level but thats all it is. Personally I wouldnt have a problem completeing the course ahead of most people. I train ppl for a living at a gym part time and its required I do allot of stupid shit simply put.

Just dont tell me it was intese and that your hardcore because you climbed monkey bars and rope. Like I said I get the feeling the next story is going to be "I had to strap into this harness and risked my life falling down a ZIPLINE!"

Well aren't you just the most bad ass individual because you teach cross fit. Go do one then come back and report how easy and stupid of a race it was. Also keep in mind that believe it or not, not everyone is on the same level of god tier fitness as you are. So get the fuck off your high horse and let people who are not gym coaches enjoy their accomplishment and success of completing one of the toughest 10 mile races ever created.

Quote:

Originally Posted by timmytard

Easy peezy Japaneezy.

If you think this is tough, I had to go to Wilderness camp as a teenager.

When I was 16 a friend & I were jumped by three 18 year olds, we pummeled their asses. One of the other guys happened to become def in one ear, from a well placed roundhouse kick to the dome. They just picked the wrong kids to fuck with, my friend & I had been in kickboxing together for 4 years @ this point.
It was not an option, it was through Corrections. We had to do that shit everyday.(minus the electricity) At first it was super shitty, you were a criminal & they treated you as such. But after the half way point, you became a team.

Now it became Wilderness survival, we got to rock climb, repel huge cliffs, portage lakes & sleep on the tops of snow covered peaks. They even had an obstacle course about 100 feet up in the forest.(picture Ewok village)

It was 8 weeks long. The final week we had to spend 4 days by yourself not a group with no food & only 1 liter of water

They told us if we seen anyone, not to go up & talk to them. We were so far up in the mountains that no one would expect to see people where we were. While I was on my solo, I heard a 4x4 coming up the mountain, of course I ran over & talked to them. Well so did my instructor, when we got back to camp, I got reamed out in front of everyone & was told I was going to have to do it all over again, 8 weeks with a new instructor & group of bad kids.

I felt so shitty, I could have died. It wasn't near as bad the second time, just because I had just finished doing it with a diff group.

@ this point I was close to the instructors in conditioning & knowledge.
I knew what was expected from us as a group & more importantly I knew what not to do. You couldn't even use slang while speaking or you would get push-ups for you & your group.

Still the first 4 weeks they treated you like a criminal, & was nothing but hard labor, digging out stumps larger than SUV's.

After the half way point, we got to do all the fun stuff again. Since I had already done it all, I got to be the guy who showed all the other kids how it was supposed to be done.

@ the time it wasn't that much fun, but looking back on it now, it was awesome.(not the labor part) I think every kid should have to do it.
There are programs similar to it for non criminals, & if you have a kid I think you should sign them up for it. They will thank you for it later in life, probably not so much @ the time though.

There is nothing in this world that can stop a group of determined people from accomplishing. NOTHING.

I wouldn't be the indestructible fearless lunatic that I am today, if I hadn't been forced to do it, twice.

Toughmudder is just playin' in the mud with your friends. That's it, that's all.

TT

That program has since been shut down because a few kids died.

I almost forgot, about ten years later I was working in the film industry & got to go back there.
When you graduated from wilderness camp your group had to make some kind of plaque.
When I went back, I searched for my groups & I found it.
Since it was shut down permanently, I asked the guy in charge of letting us in, if I could take my plaque home. He didn't have a problem with that since it was mine anyways.

So I have my groups @ my house.

This is the weight of the world on my shoulders!

TT

CheeseForSteeze · 08-10-2012, 10:41 PM

My cousin who has run several marathons including one in the grueling 80 degree humidity of Hawaii and my friend who is a super marathoner living in Boulder who attempted his first 100 mile race in the desert this year (Zion 100) as well as the Leadville 50 and 100 both have said this is one the the toughest 10k events you can do.

I think I'll take their word over an internet commando who has has the word tard in his name (and proven it belongs there more than once) who posts mindless ramblings about some alleged wilderness camp where, more than likely, the reality was them circle jerking each other while they stumbled through poison ivy and ate double stuffed oreos.

IdahoFreshies · 08-11-2012, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CheeseForSteeze

My cousin who has run several marathons including one in the grueling 80 degree humidity of Hawaii and my friend who is a super marathoner living in Boulder who attempted his first 100 mile race in the desert this year (Zion 100) as well as the Leadville 50 and 100 both have said this is one the the toughest 10k events you can do.

I think I'll take their word over an internet commando who has has the word tard in his name (and proven it belongs there more than once) who posts mindless ramblings about some alleged wilderness camp where, more than likely, the reality was them circle jerking each other while they stumbled through poison ivy and ate double stuffed oreos.

This is probably some of the best info in this thread. Ultra marathoners are nucking futs, and I can guarantee that nobody on the site, especially cross fit gugu OP can get through 1/2 of the leadville race. For an ultra endurance runner to say the tough mudder is one of the hardest 10 mile races you can do it says a lot.

timmytard · 08-11-2012, 12:48 PM

You could basically do any one of those races in your living room, on your treadmill. Every hour or so you run into the backyard & roll in the dirt, then back to the treadmill.
Or you could make it super extreme, by gluing rocks & sticks to the treadmill, maybe some moss.

What could be more dangerous than setting up the hose to run water on that bad boy, crank up the incline. Fuck I'm startin' to gasp for air just thinkin' about it.

That is fuckin' crazy EXTREME, I bet your brothers uncle's friend couldn't do that.

Everyone on this fucking planet could do this race, we were born to run.
It is not a skill, & it's not extreme, it's as natural as breathing.
To be a real extreme athlete you need to do more than just run, in a straight line, a circle or real far.

It's only running, you don't need skills, talent, super fast reflexes or the ability to make life or death decisions in the blink of an eye. You put one foot in front of the other, you learned that before you were 2.

The only reason why everyone thinks it's so difficult is because we've all become soft & lazy.

TT

CheeseForSteeze · 08-11-2012, 01:04 PM

You're really proving you deserve your name.

No one is saying foot races encompass the entire spectrum of athletic skills (dexterity, power, agility, strength, wits etc.) That doesn't make it easy. By your logic, you could strip everything down to its fundamental elements and say it's easy because it excludes certain things because, quite simply, no athletic event can incorporate every single element of athleticism.

Please go back to circle jerking your friends and eating deadly nightshade berries.

IdahoFreshies · 08-11-2012, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timmytard

You could basically do any one of those races in your living room, on your treadmill. Every hour or so you run into the backyard & roll in the dirt, then back to the treadmill.
Or you could make it super extreme, by gluing rocks & sticks to the treadmill, maybe some moss.

What could be more dangerous than setting up the hose to run water on that bad boy, crank up the incline. Fuck I'm startin' to gasp for air just thinkin' about it.

That is fuckin' crazy EXTREME, I bet your brothers uncle's friend couldn't do that.

Everyone on this fucking planet could do this race, we were born to run.
It is not a skill, & it's not extreme, it's as natural as breathing.
To be a real extreme athlete you need to do more than just run, in a straight line, a circle or real far.

It's only running, you don't need skills, talent, super fast reflexes or the ability to make life or death decisions in the blink of an eye. You put one foot in front of the other, you learned that before you were 2.

The only reason why everyone thinks it's so difficult is because we've all become soft & lazy.

TT

God you are dumb as hell. How many times were you hit in the head with a brick when you were 2?

08-10-2012, 04:59 PM	#12 (permalink)
tomtom88 -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,639	I will be participating in one of the Colorado events next year, I wanted to this year but I was out of town at the time. __________________ Take yourself to higher places.

08-10-2012, 05:48 PM	#13 (permalink)
InfiniteEclipse Stay Strapped Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,116	Both the Warrior Dash (that I did) and the toughmudder are held at ski resorts in Ontario, meaning you're climbing up and down the mountain throughout the course. I consider myself athletic and I workout religiously - The obstacles are fun and in the case of Warrior, they're the easiest part... still, you can't help but get winded running under the blazing heat of the sun up and down the mountain. It's a challenge for sure __________________ Did she say Strap-in or Strap-on?

08-10-2012, 10:41 PM	#16 (permalink)
CheeseForSteeze -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 1,723	My cousin who has run several marathons including one in the grueling 80 degree humidity of Hawaii and my friend who is a super marathoner living in Boulder who attempted his first 100 mile race in the desert this year (Zion 100) as well as the Leadville 50 and 100 both have said this is one the the toughest 10k events you can do. I think I'll take their word over an internet commando who has has the word tard in his name (and proven it belongs there more than once) who posts mindless ramblings about some alleged wilderness camp where, more than likely, the reality was them circle jerking each other while they stumbled through poison ivy and ate double stuffed oreos. Last edited by CheeseForSteeze; 08-10-2012 at 10:44 PM.

08-11-2012, 12:48 PM	#18 (permalink)
timmytard Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: I can see Santa shoveling his driveway Posts: 1,357	You could basically do any one of those races in your living room, on your treadmill. Every hour or so you run into the backyard & roll in the dirt, then back to the treadmill. Or you could make it super extreme, by gluing rocks & sticks to the treadmill, maybe some moss. What could be more dangerous than setting up the hose to run water on that bad boy, crank up the incline. Fuck I'm startin' to gasp for air just thinkin' about it. That is fuckin' crazy EXTREME, I bet your brothers uncle's friend couldn't do that. Everyone on this fucking planet could do this race, we were born to run. It is not a skill, & it's not extreme, it's as natural as breathing. To be a real extreme athlete you need to do more than just run, in a straight line, a circle or real far. It's only running, you don't need skills, talent, super fast reflexes or the ability to make life or death decisions in the blink of an eye. You put one foot in front of the other, you learned that before you were 2. The only reason why everyone thinks it's so difficult is because we've all become soft & lazy. TT __________________ If whatever doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger. Then I am so close to immortality

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08-10-2012, 01:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
TMXMOTORSPORTS Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Graveyard Of The Atlantic Posts: 242	My daughter and 2 of her freinds went to a thing called Rugged Maniac they had a blast.

08-11-2012, 01:04 PM	#19 (permalink)
CheeseForSteeze -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 1,723	You're really proving you deserve your name. No one is saying foot races encompass the entire spectrum of athletic skills (dexterity, power, agility, strength, wits etc.) That doesn't make it easy. By your logic, you could strip everything down to its fundamental elements and say it's easy because it excludes certain things because, quite simply, no athletic event can incorporate every single element of athleticism. Please go back to circle jerking your friends and eating deadly nightshade berries.