Tough Mudder - Team BD

[Psymonkee]

Sorely tempted and would give me a hell of a goal to aim for. ....

[Will]

No chance!

[BBx]

That is definitely crazier than running 26.2 miles so hell no!

In fact, it sounds like hell!

BB x

[Pheebs]

Super impressed!! Had we not been going away I'd be in!! When we get back though, deffo

Looking forward to plonking some sponsor moolah over

[Belmit]

Thanks for all the monies and support people. Was an amazing day and I'd do it again this weekend if there was one on!

There's a survey to fill out and I'm going to complain about that quarter-pipe obstacle; due to its difficulty people were just crowded at the bottom, meaning long waits, dangerous behaviour and little chance of giving it a proper go. Other than that, pretty much awesome!

[Desmo]

I did the questionnaire last night. My only complaint was that the first I knew about arriving 2 hours before our start time was in an email one week before the event. They could have let us know a lot sooner than that as it could have made some peoples travel plans a lot more difficult. I understand the potential need for the time but just let me know a bit sooner I'd also say the course was very much runner friendly. There were long distances to be run rather than the run a bit, do an obstacle, run a bit.... that I thought it might be. I'd also like some slightly more technical obstacles but I'm just picking hairs here. Overall, the day was utterly awesome.


Massive massive thanks to everyone who donated. We raised a huge amount of money for various charities

[Belmit]

Despite a favourable and positive response overall, I let them have it with this, regarding layout/obstacles:

Wasn't so happy with the number of water obstacles at the end, and having to wait around for each whilst cold and wet from the last one. Having had no trouble with fitness, heat, cold etc. until that point it was disappointing that I reached a point where I felt I might struggle simply because of waiting around. Most disappointing of all was Everest, which was a complete bottleneck due to difficulty. Having been in and out of the water three times on the previous obstacles the entire team was drained of body heat and joining a crowd of people in the hundreds at the bottom of it. When we arrived one girl was already seriously injured from the sheer number of people falling down on each other and there was only room for a few people at a time to have a go at it (and mostly failing because there wasn't a big enough run-up thanks to the crowd). If the obstacle had been twice as wide it may have faired better. As it was, I waited ten minutes to have one go while the rest of the team went around. After my one failed attempt I decided it was no longer worth getting colder waiting for a second go and followed them. A real shame as it was the only obstacle we skipped. This obstacle in particular needs much better wardening and safety professionals on hand. It was a good five minutes before anyone turned up to attend to the fallen girl (despite a number of Mudders calling for aid), who was shaking and couldn't move while people were throwing themselves up the ramp around her. I'd certainly be interested to know if she was OK. (This was around 1:30pm)

[Desmo]

I think Jingo read somewhere that she was OK and released from hospital later that day

[Belmit]

Ah, good to know. Must be gutting what with that being the last 200m of the entire course. Maybe they carried her over the finish line, on a stretcher, through the electrical wires?!

[BBx]

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Actually this looks tame in comparison to yours coming to London though.

BB x