Monday, September 10, 2012
Tough Mudder
I have been constantly training and working out since my weight loss journey started in February of this year. My weight loss total to date is 55 pounds, I started at 240 pounds and currently wegh 185. I have trained for and run and set a personal best for a half marathon this summer. I am currently training for a Warrior Dash in September and then another half marathon the next weekend in October. My training has gone pretty awesome I have to say. I have stayed injury free and completely motivated to stay on it the whole time. As my training progresses and my times get faster, my deistances get longer I want to be constantly pushing myself to the next level. Once I conquer 9 minute miles I want to be running 8 minute miles. When I can easily run 5 miles I want to be able to easily run 7 miles. I dont ever want to become lax in my training and plateau. I have had a great winter and then summer of training and races and feel very blessed that God has given me this body that I can work hard and it responds well. I have been blessed to stay injury free and become much more healthy than I was when I started and I turn all of that back to God for blessing me physicall and mentally and I started this journey. After my Warrior Dash and half marathon in about a month I want to look for the next challenge, the next mountain to climb and eventually conquer. That mountain for me is going to be a Tough Mudder! A Tough Mudder is about a 13 mile run that has somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 British Special Forces style obstacles. It is billed as the Toughest thing you'll ever do! There are obstacles that involve jumping into an ice water filled dumpster (first obstacle), up and down hills, running through fire, through mud, over 12 foot high walls, under barbed wire and through a field of 10,000 volt charged wires just to name a few! This event is done in teams becasue almost nobody could complete it on their own.
Why would I choose to try something like this? Honestly because it scares me a little bit and I'm not sure I could do it. I dont ever want fear to stop me from going after things and I kind of enjoy that feeling of your heart beating really fast, head rush feeling you get when your a little scared of something. That fires me up, I want to run head first into those kinds of situations. Also I want to do it becasue I think it would be an incredible team building/bonding experience for the team of guys I am going to ask to do this with me. I am a team player and I love nothing more than holding up my end of the bargain for the sake of my team achieving a goal. So on top of my cardio training that I do quite a bit now I will also have to seriously work on my strength training. This is way more than just running a straight line for 13 miles, it will be the most physically demanding thing I have ever tried and I cannot wait to jump into this thing head first!
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