It seems only fitting that I finished reading Will Dean's It Takes a Tribe: Building the Tough Mudder Movement in the dark at 4:30 in the morning during a power outage while wearing the headlamp I used while I ran 2017's World's Toughest Mudder in Las Vegas. When I had to choose a book about [...]
On November 9th, 2017, I left for Las Vegas to have an adventure of a lifetime. I decided for my 40th birthday this year, that I wanted to take on my first ever World’s Toughest Mudder (WTM). Some women would more likely want a designer hand bag or a girls’ weekend away, but I wanted [...]
Then to Now I think back to 2011 when I first learned about Tough Mudder. I wasn't even a runner. I couldn't even run a mile. Just a 10 mile Tough Mudder seemed absurd to me. I saw something on TV about World's Toughest Mudder sometime later that year and I thought, "Who does that?" [...]
3K Short Course I watched all morning as my friends and teammates ran in the earlier heats for the short course. What made me most nervous was seeing strong teammates struggle at the Battlefrog rig as well as the impending rain in the forecast. Sizing up the obstacles, I thought I'd be able to handle [...]
Another year, another Tough Mudder… or two. June 18, my team and I got up bright and early to hit the Mount Snow course while it was still clean. It was beautiful and sunny and not 50 degrees for once, we were wearing our matching team gear feeling pretty legit, and after we got the [...]
I thought I was nuts doing 12 races last year, and yet, I find myself registered for 20 so far in 2016 and I couldn’t be more excited! The thing about OCR is that it doesn’t get dull, at least not yet. The training is varied, interesting, often fun, and the sport is always changing, [...]
As I sit here typing on a Wednesday night, sore and just plain tired from finally getting back to the gym after 3 weekends straight of big races, I can’t help but feel a bit sad that my very last race of 2015 is coming up October 17. It has been an epic year full [...]
Racing season is in full force now that it's June. I took on my 4th Tough Mudder this weekend at Mount Snow with a team of badasses and we had a blast! I've spent my winter working to improve my strength and conditioning so I can be more competitive in my racing this summer, but [...]
Up until this year, I had only run 3-4 mile obstacle course races or a 10.5 mile Tough Mudder that had enough water stations and nutrition along the course that I didn’t feel the need to carry my own. I did a lot of reading online before before my first Spartan Super and Spartan Beast … Read More
When I ran my first Tough Mudder last year, as soon as I crossed the finish line I thought, “I need a bigger challenge.” Coming from only having done a couple of Warrior Dashes before Tough Mudder, I had initially been nervous about the 10+ mile distance and being able to run much of it … Read More
