We ARE the Bad Mudders!

You really didn't think I wouldn't write a blog about the Tough Mudder now did you!?!  :)

So pretty much any race, any obstacle, anything that pushes me out of my comfort zone I LOVE!

I know it's a sickness, but the harder the better!  I mean seriously, what is more rewarding than pushing your body to the absolute limit and accomplishing something mentally and physically challenging?

So, 9 months ago my husband and I signed up to do the Tough Mudder.

The pure fact that Seth wanted to do something like this with me was reason enough to be excited (you see, he's never done a race with me before).

Before I go on, the Tough Mudder is not a race (right Zack!).  It is a challenge.... But who am I kidding...  Everything is a race to me!

Right away we started recruiting people for our team.  Team Bad Mudders!

Here's our team... Zack and Nicole, TJ and Julie, Nate and Cheryl and Seth and I.  And that dude on the upper left is not a creeper that's our good buddy Shaun who was apart of a different team.

 So if you don't know anything about the Tough Mudder it is a 10 mile obstacle course with 20 different challenges throughout the course.  Not to mention the hills that we had to climb all throughout.

Just one of the MANY hills!









Here are a few pictures to give you a good idea of all the obstacles we had to go through.  I took all of these off Tough Mudder website, so you won't see us in any of the pictures.  However, we did get some sweet picture and video on a go pro, so hopefully I'll be able to share those soon!

First obstacle, mud, water and barbwire!


Followed by water and electric shock!


Third was the wall climb.

 Other obstacles were wall scaling, drop the plank (eeek!), rings, and half pipe!

Lots more climbing, and crawling through tubes and water.



















More barbwire and mud (lots and lots of mud!), and of course more electric shock!

And finally monkey bars, snow, logs and ice!


Take a look at the picture on the bottom left.  That's a dumpster filled with water and ice.  Throughout the day they are constantly adding ice. 

This was the coldest water I have ever been in.  I guarantee you that the majority of the participants had a look of pure terror as they jumped in and swam through!  I know our whole team did!

So proud of my team.  It was an incredible day!  Slightly bummed that it is over and I have to wait until next year to do it again (oh, you better believe I'm doing it next year!). 

Love these girls!

And these goofy guys!














I made this little image to show how incredibly proud I am of my teammates!  We really could not have done it without each other!  Until next year Bad Mudders!