Anyway, I brow-beated the Handyman into doing this with me. If he was telling this story, he would probably tell you I threatened to divorce him if he didn't participate. It's my story so I deny any threats.
Though running isn't the Handyman's thing (he hasn't ran since high school when he used to play soccer), I still needed him to participate to help with the obstacles. My upper body strength has declined as I've gotten older, but he still has an unnatural ability to leap human size hay bales, push my body up over a two story wall, and carry another human (I'm that human) while running a 50 yard dash. Which leads me to believe if you combined his strength and my running endurance into one person, we would be the ultimate competitor (we have hope for our children). As much as he complained about the running (more like a combination of jogging and walking), I have to give him credit for completing the whole course with me. He admitted after it was all done he had fun. Not that he would ever do it again he still had fun. I had fun too! He even admitted that my friend and I were tough. Hooah!
Though I had fun, I have to tell you I thought the course was poorly set up. For the first six miles, there was probably only one big obstacle. Now to be fair it was raining and they did shut down a big obstacle due to lightening (understandable). All of the really cool obstacles were at the end when you were the most tired, muddy, and soaked. I would've liked to have seen them evenly spread out throughout the course. The other disappointment was that they repeated some of the smaller obstacles. Once you do one obstacle, you don't want to repeat it. You want a new challenge. A lot of other participants thought the same as us. Either way the outcome was good, no one in our group got hurt and we had fun.
What was harder the marathon or Tough Mudder? Definitely the marathon.
Would I do Tough Mudder again? Probably not. Once was good enough. Another check off the bucket list.
Hooah!
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