The world’s most rugged sport.

                           THERE WILL BE MUDDER'S  the world’s most rugged new sport.

After three hours of climbing walls crawling through tunnels, scrabbling under barbed wire, swimming in ice water, hoisting cement blocks and other cruelties you come to a 50 foot tough of icy mud, dozens of yellow wires hang from a wood-plank roof looking like jellyfish tentacles. The wires sting like jellyfish too, because they are electrified. It’s called Electroshock Therapy, the last of 32 obstacles on the 10-mile course. You’re wet, freezing wheezing, bruised, cramping, spent. There’s only one thing to do; actually two. You could crawl under the wires, gargling muddy water and wasting time, or you could charge through the live wires, yelling “Piss! Shit! Bite me!” and assorted ape grunts as the wires kick sparks off you face and aching limbs. Finally, six seconds later, it’s over. Now it’s a half-mile jog to the finish line. You’re rounding the last turn into the stadium, where loud speakers pound “Guns N” Roses” as you wave your mud-caked paws at the crowd. Fans cheer, your buddies hug you. You just survived the World’s Toughest Mudder, the ultimate test of the world’s most rugged new sport. Now you can strip off your wet suit, rinse off grab a blanket and parka, a beer, and sit down, unless you want to win. In that case you’ll need to start over. To win you’ll need to run the 10-mile obstacle course eight more times. 

“Tough Mudder is the worst day you’ll ever have, and the best” one mudder says. “It’s a cross between an endurance race and Marine boot camp” 

The world’s fastest-growing sport inspires extreme descriptions. It’s been called many things: a masochist’s marathon ,the toughest event on the planet,-a real-life fight club- Ironman meets Burning Man, trial by fire, ice dirt monkey bars, and electric shocks.

            There are lots of extreme sports for example:-the traditional 26.2 mile marathon,  ultra-marathons love, triathlons (swim, bike and ride), Ironman’s triathlons (swim 2. miles, bike 11 miles, then run a marathon, and newer events such as the  Spartan Race, Muddy Buddy, Dirty Dash and Rugged Maniac. Most of them feature obstacles involving tree chopping vegetable slicing, beer drinking fighting American Gladiators” style, body builders armed with Nerf lances, even memorizing the names of US presidents. The boot-campy ones have been growing quickly, challenging older events the way Mamba down boxing did a decade ago. Tough Mudder, with a million adherents, leads the field, which fits its cocky corporate goal to, “Replace Ironman as the pre-eminent endurance sport.”

 Not bad for a concept dreamed up four years ago, by an entrepreneur student at Harvard, by the name of Art Sojourner.                                          

  To be continued...

DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.   To read more of my writings go to: 

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