I’ve thought about entering the Tough Guy competition for a good five years now and finally I’ve taken the plunge and paid me fees to enter. Now I’ve entered it feels like a sense of impending doom is upon me with the more I read about the Tough Guy Race the more brooding it becomes! So what is Tough Guy? Tough Guy was supposedly created to put competitors through a gruelling race that tests all phobia’s anyone can have, whether a fear of confined spaces, drowning, heights, the boxes are all ticked. The race begins with a 6 miles cross country race- not so hard I hear you cry! Unfortunately that’s not the end of it, with most of it being completed over what is called aptly the Ghurkha Grand National Jumping in and through six foot ditches then comes the slalom – the steepest incline 50 meter bank they could find and running down and back up it 12 times. After this a long leg Burning swamp section in which competitors run/stagger through knee high mud. After all this the real fun begins as you enter what is known as the ‘Killing Fields’. 2 miles of horrendous obstacles designed to test you body and mind to the limit. Warming up with two massive 50 foot a frames to clamber up and over you are greeting by an electrified wire field to run through, with each wire apparently with double the current to stun a bull! After this there are a succession of different challenges from underwater swims with air pockets in which you can take your breath, barbed wire crawls through thick mud, running through burning bales of hay set on fire, claustrophobic long tyre crawls and on like this for 20 or so obstacles or ‘beastings.
I’m entering the race in January so all of this will be done in the freezing winter cold. Apparently the cold is a massive factor with one year 300 competitors reportedly suffering from hypothermia! Not surprising when you consider most of the time you’re chest deep in water or freezing mud.
And why am I doing this?? I ask myself the same question but as most of you know I enjoy extreme challenges what ever they may be, I’d definitely rather have done it than not- that goes for most things in life. I’m also running for the Make a Wish foundation who grant children with life threatening illnesses they’re magic wish, whether that’s a trip to see Father Christmas or whatever they give it to them- a thought that will keep me going when I’m stuck up to my eyes in mud! If you’d like to sponsor please go to www.justgiving.com/samuelpont any donation will be gladly accepted.
I’ll be keeping you up to date with my training on this site to let you know how things are going and so until then YOHIMBE!
http://www.toughguy.com/
I’m entering the race in January so all of this will be done in the freezing winter cold. Apparently the cold is a massive factor with one year 300 competitors reportedly suffering from hypothermia! Not surprising when you consider most of the time you’re chest deep in water or freezing mud.
And why am I doing this?? I ask myself the same question but as most of you know I enjoy extreme challenges what ever they may be, I’d definitely rather have done it than not- that goes for most things in life. I’m also running for the Make a Wish foundation who grant children with life threatening illnesses they’re magic wish, whether that’s a trip to see Father Christmas or whatever they give it to them- a thought that will keep me going when I’m stuck up to my eyes in mud! If you’d like to sponsor please go to www.justgiving.com/samuelpont any donation will be gladly accepted.
I’ll be keeping you up to date with my training on this site to let you know how things are going and so until then YOHIMBE!
http://www.toughguy.com/
