Official Event Description Personal Observations (Picture Below if Available)1 Insane Bolt Sprint your heart out on the first 1/4 mile of track.

Try to reach the timed gate before it closes or face a penalty of an additional 1/4 mile.

The leaders ran fast and didn't have to run an extra 1/4 mile. Over the course of 24 hours, the distance seemed too inconsequential to worry about sprinting. Plus I'm lazy. I ran the extra quarter.

2 The Jesus Walk

You can never tell how deep a pond is until you jump in. This pond will keep you guessing the whole way across.

Essentially trudging through puddles. The Jesus Walk was simple, and I Tebowed the shit out of it. My level of clever just blew your mind.

3 Mud Mile Get stuck in our energy-zapping Tough Mudder thick mud as you make your way though seemingly never ending pits.

If God was responsible for the Jesus Walk, Satan designed the Mud Mile. This is literally a mile of water between knee and shoulders deep. But it's also slick, so you're constantly falling over with elevation changes from trenches and inclines. Every 500 feet you crawl out and have to climb over a wall. Numbness is your best friend, as 30 seconds in you stop feeling pain and just concentrate on moving forward without going down. You never get warm again after this truly energy-zapping event. Rather than obstacle #3, they should've labeled it #666.

Obstacle

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4 Get Railed We hope you have been doing dips at the gym as you will need solid upper body strength to cross this long stretch of treacherous parallel bars.

Use two mud-coated bars to cross above 10 yards of ice-cold water. Surprisingly, everyone seemed to manage this one. I think my arms are still sore from this though.

5 Cliffhanger Two Tough Mudder classics. You thought Devil's Beard was tough, now try to get through it on your way up Cliffhanger.

Steep incline, completely smoothed over to eliminate friction. Get a running start, or you'll be repeating it.

6 Razor's Edge Reaching the top of this sharp peak is half the battle. Not falling off will be equally as hard.

This event was designed by British Special Forces, and they made 'don't fall down' as one of the official obstacles. This qualifies as the easiest thing you encounter. Seriously, the event is 'don't fall down after you scale a hill.' This course was otherwise difficult enough, I don't think they needed to force new obstacles.

7 Electroshock Therapy

Release your inner demons as you navigate through a field of live wires, each prepared to bring you to your knees with a 10,000 volt shock.

The bastards actually make you run through 20 yards of dangling wires surging with an intermittent 10,000 volt current. A fast guy could sprint through this quickly IF there weren't double stacked hay bales placed every 10 feet to impede progress. I got nailed by two wires, lost all control of motor functions, and fell face-first into the mud. A true test of manhood.

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8 Turd's Nest Try not to fall, as you make your way across this fragile net.

Climb a jungle gym-esque structure, cross a huge net hanging in the air. More annoying than challenging.

9 Berlin Walls #1

Show team spirit and camaraderie as you work with other Mudders to get over this series of walls.

3 sets of 8 foot high walls. I worked with two other people and we helped lift/pull each other other over. They weighed ~200 lbs. It was not a proportional effort.

Official Event Description Personal Observations (Picture Below if Available)Obstacle10 Island

Hopping Your leaping abilities will be thoroughly challenged as you attempt to make your way across these unforgiving floating docks.

This is where they really start to break you. As you wait in line (shivering, in the shade), you watch the people before you jump from one unsteady floating dock to another. Sometimes they fall. Then you shiver more. Then you attempt to hop from floating dock to floating dock and fall in. My saving grace was these long stems I sport, giving me a longer reach than my peers. I managed not to fall in. Many others were not so lucky.