Rugged Maniac is coming to North Florida. If you haven’t registered yet, time is
running out. This mud run will be held
in Waldo, a little town situated nicely between Jacksonville and Gainesville
(GO GATORS!!) on Saturday, February 16 (Happy Birthday Dad!). Registration, however, closes at midnight on
February 8th, which is in roughly 48 hours from this posting. There is no time to waste. Get a few of your friends together and commit
to getting this thing done. Sign up at
RuggedManiac.com and be sure to use the Rugged Maniac Promo Code TC0001 to save
an additional 10% off your registration fee.
What are you waiting for?!
My eldest son and I are really looking forward to what is
going to be our first mud run of 2013.
We will be running in a morning heat so here’s hoping that it won’t be
too chilly. After the run, he and I will
be sticking around to put in some volunteer hours. In exchange for our four and half hour shift
we get to run the course for free.
What’s more, I get to peek behind the scenes to see what all goes into
putting on one of these amazing events.
I am pretty excited about that part too.
I am not so sure about my son, but I am sure he’ll find some fun in it
as well.
While it may be too late to start training for an event like
this, I did find this link to The Rugged Regime (printable version) which can be used to get
yourself ready for any mud run event.
However, if you feel like you are somehow not in shape enough to run the
course, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Events like these are about having fun, getting muddy, and….having
fun. There are plenty of people who
don’t run the whole course. There isn't any shame in that. What is a shame is
not giving yourself permission to go get dirty just because you may not be able
to run 3.1 miles. I tell myself and my
boys: “Challenge yourself….you may just be surprised.” But the most important thing is to have fun. If you don’t have fun and you don’t complete
the course (either because you can’t do all the obstacles or you can’t make the
whole run), then there is little chance you will ever try it again. However, if you are having a blast and you
don’t complete the course, you will remember the fun and are more likely to try
something like this again in the future.
Like I said, people walk, people skip obstacles. There is no shame. The real shame comes from not having
fun.
A few other things about Rugged Maniac to consider:
- It is (only) 5K which is (only) 3.1 miles. That’s long enough to be a challenge, but not so long that you need to take a vacation to recover from it.
- Rugged Maniac prides itself on having some of the biggest obstacles in the industry. AND there are twenty of them. This is a course saturated with fun, challenging obstacles from cargo nets, to climbing walls, mud pits, tubes, tunnels, and even a 100 foot water slide. Tough Mudder has 20 obstacles too, but they are spread over a 10-12 mile course. Warrior Dash only has 15 obstacles at last check. Spartan Race varies in course length, but they have 20 obstacles as well. I am not suggesting that any of these other races aren’t worth doing. What I am saying is that if you don’t want a crazy long run, but you do want lots of fun challenging obstacles, Rugged Maniac is the race for you.
- After the run, there is the festival featuring live bands, mechanical bulls, adult-sized bounce houses (OH-YEAH!!), a chance to get muddier in tug-o-war, food, and plenty of cold beer to cool you down.
- Rugged Maniac also prides itself on having the highest percentage of female runners of any national obstacle race in the industry at a whopping 55%!
Again, registration for Rugged Maniac in Waldo, Florida is
closing on February 8th at midnight.
Remember to use Rugged Maniac Promo Code TC0001 during checkout to save
10% on your registration fee. We hope to
see you there!!
(If you can’t make it to Waldo, the Rugged Maniac Promo Code
TC0001 is good at any US Rugged Maniac event.)
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