Wednesday, September 11, 2013

NVW Staff Challenges Tough Mudder

















The New Vision Wilderness staff is always incorporating staff-wellness events into their weekly and monthly schedules. Bringing each other together outside the workplace helps strengthen their bonds at work. From smaller events, such as cookouts and movie nights, to larger events, such as marathons and Tough Mudder obstacle courses, the New Vision staff enjoys wellness events.

If you’ve never hear of Tough Mudder before, than you’re in for a surprise.

What is Tough Mudder?
Tough Mudder events are hardcore obstacle courses designed to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, over one million inspiring participants worldwide to date, and more than $5 million raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world. But Tough Mudder is more than an event; it’s a way of thinking. By running a Tough Mudder challenge, you’ll unlock a true sense of accomplishment, have a great time and discover a camaraderie with your fellow participants that’s experienced all too rarely these days.

Dave Mosse, Field Director, Challenges Tough Mudder
“The race was great. It was a total of 11.8 miles with approximately 20 obstacles. Our average mile pace was about 8:30 minutes per mile. All the obstacles were fun but my favorite with out a doubt was an obstacle called the funky monkey, which came at about the 11-mile mark. This was a new take on the monkey bars we all know and love from our days on playground except instead of straight across it had a 45 degree pitch going up and the same going down on the other side! We rocked it with no problems. Another obstacle that was fun was a leap from a 30ft platform, which was reached by climbing up a nearly vertical and very muddy wall with small wood ledges with enough room to step on with one toe. That one was great. When you hit the water and mud, it was very refreshing. The other obstacle that sticks out as a favorite would be the "Berlin Wall," which is a 15ft wall where you have to use your team mates as a ladder to get to the top and the help the last person over the wall by pulling them up! Great team work. My least favorite was called "electroshock" therapy. For this obstacle we had to crawl under 20ft of barbed wire, which had electrically charged wire hanging down, and damn did they pack a wallop! I saw two people get knocked out for a moment when they got shocked. I was lucky and only was shocked twice it the back, but damn it hurt. Our total time was 2hr 20min and it was a blast! I'm a lot more confident as I move into training for a 24hr obstacle course race next spring or fall.”

More Resources:
Dave Mosse, Field Director Biography: http://goo.gl/8GSKqm
Tough Mudder Website: http://goo.gl/4cNFzo