Tough Mudder Experience INTERVIEW

9/10 - either brilliant trolling, or completely clueless to post something like that here.

Full Name: Fred Flintstone

Age: 47

Location in the United States: Detroit, Michigan

Occupation: sweep up after the elephants at the Detroit Zoo

Thing to thing about when sending quote or blurb:

How did you find out about the tough mudder? My mudder

How did you train for it? I hobby jogged

What was the biggest obstacle for you to overcome? Constipation

Any funny stories? I took too much xlax the night before and

pooped my shorts about half way through the mudder

I've never heard of a tough mudder but from the video it looks like people are trying to get in touch with nature by acting like pigs in mud.

I hope to hear from you!!

I have one question though. usually pigs are happy in mud, these people don't look happy. What gives?

Thanks! Hope to hear from you

Please let it be real, oh please let it be real.

Hi Lucy. As you've probably already gathered, you are unlikely to get a straight response here. I gained my journalism degree in 2005 and worked in the industry as a journo and copy editor until 2012 so I could perhaps point you in a direction closer to what you need.

You're better off trying smaller, local forums who tend to be a lot more helpful, and are more likely to have tried Tough Mudder or know somebody who has. To that end, CrossFit forums might also be able to help given Tough Mudder and CrossFit intersect in target demographics.

Triathlon forums as well might be able to yield some results for you, as well as forums for those who run cross-country regularly. Forums for the armed services could also bear fruit - given Tough Mudder replicates many courses in basic training, it makes sense ex-servicemen would perhaps like to try their hand at something similar in civilian life.

Of course, calling peak bodies or local running clubs is much more direct, and if your telephone manner is good they will recommend somebody specific, maybe even provide photos or a face-to-face interview.

Good luck with journalism. As for me I'm now studying physiotherapy.

Full Name: George Parker

Age: 32

Location in the United States: CT

Occupation: BioMedical Technician

How did you find out about the tough mudder? I found out about Tough Mudder when a few of my frat bros who hadn't exercised since college intramural rugby asked me to be on their team.

How did you train for it? No training necessary, I work out at the gym 3-4 times a week and I do 5 mins of cardio before and after the lifting. I was already swoll.

What was the biggest obstacle for you to overcome? I'm not saying this to by funny but the hardest obstacle wasn't even the race, it was registering. You have to enter in your credit card info and I just had a really hard time copying the numbers from my card onto the screen's computer.

Any funny stories? Listen, I don't want to sound racist but Tough Mudder is hard. I thought it'd be really easy because I went to the gym, but there was stuff you just couldn't train for. At one point you had to climb over 3 walls that got larger and larger, like the first was 4 foot then 5 feet then 6 foot. My gym doesn't have walls so I wasn't able to get over the last one, I mean, if I had trained on a wall it would've been easy but thankfully I had my bros there. They helped me over. We stayed at the wall and helped over lots of people cause we're kind. OH, there was this one skinny dude who was trying to get over the wall and HAHAHA, he couldn't do it right away and we kept offering our help cause we were pretty big dudes and we could've just lifted his skinny ass up over it, but HE TRIED 3 OR 4 TIMES AND THEN ON his 5rd try he slipped and fell back down, we laughed so hard. He made it over on his next try or whatever but when he fell it was so funny

The video really says:

"Probably the toughest event on the planet" WITH a trademark symbol! LOL.

I don't think that the videos really capture the spirit of the EVENT. They show all the action without the showing the queues as people wait their turn to race through the obstacles "untimed".

You may want to try asking on a forum that is used by actual human beings.

This might be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq1qxoPPggg

Here is a real response:

Full Name: Hingle McCringleberry (I use my real name as my screen name.)

Age: 22

Location in the United States: my parents basement

Occupation: I wish

Thing to thing about when sending quote or blurb:

How did you find out about the tough mudder? Runners world magzine

How did you train for it? Ran 36 miles per week and worked out 6 times.

What was the biggest obstacle for you to overcome? Getting to the race because my parents needed their car.

Any funny stories? No, I am lame.

Full Name: Ben Dover

Age: 35

Location: New York, New York

Occupation: Bartender

Found out: through gym buddies.

Training: 3 days a week in the gym for 1 hour, most of which was upper-body work, always made sure to shower after.

Biggest Obstacle to Overcome: running between obstacles.

Funny Story: getting bent over by the event organizers in every possible way, both literally and figuratively.

Full Name: Annie Buscona

Age: 25

Location in the United States: Venice CA

Occupation: janitor, actress/model

Thing to thing about when sending quote or blurb:

How did you find out about the tough mudder? My ex-boyfriend

How did you train for it? I went to crossfit with ex-boyfriend

What was the biggest obstacle for you to overcome? getting first crossfit tat

Any funny stories? There was a lot of shoving in one of the obstacles. My top got pulled down and my nipple ring got caught on the camelbak of another mudder. Ouch! But it's all good coz it turned out the guy is rich and connected and says he can get me work.

HMU if you need photos!