This week on the Mud Run Guide Community Members of the Week we showcase two athletes celebrating achievements at the finish line. Sometimes it is fun to show off that bling at the finish. But not all bling is in the form of a medal as we learn this week.
Tough Mudder and Kill Cliff announce top Obstacle Racing and CrossFit athletes will showdown at the Tough Mudder X World Championship. Top athletes from both worlds will compete for $70,000 in cash prizes. The event is set to take place June 8, 2018, in Richmond, Virginia with the showdown to be broadcast on CBS later in the summer.
Does your gym have a TRX setup? The TRX training system is a common setup for many gyms and home workout spaces. This week on Training Tuesday we found a TRX workout. This video offers you a variety of exercises to help up your obstacle racing game. Hunter McIntyre and Andy McDermott run through a few workouts to get your stronger and ready to tackle any obstacle that comes your way.
Adventurey best known as the parent company of OCR World Championships announced today a multi-year partnership with Akuma. Akuma is a British based apparel company best known in the United States for providing the New England Spahtens with team jerseys.
Our community members are the backbone of Mud Run Guide. From your insightful comments on articles to your stories of success, the community around Mud Run Guide continues to inspire us all. This week our community members of the week share stories of success and what it's like to workout next to a professional obstacle racer.
This morning the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships named the inov-8 the "Official Footwear" of the 2018 event. inov-8 has been a brand synonymous with obstacle racing. The UK-based company is the perfect partnership for the OCR World Championships as the races moves to England this year.
Obstacle course racing is everywhere as spring rolls around. As the Northern Hemisphere comes out of the freeze of winter athletes all around are getting out and getting muddy. This week we celebrate two athletes have got out on the course recently, one rather mudder and the other not so muddy. Our featured athletes this week took on races in the United States and the Netherlands.
Spartan is upping the ante this year for the 24-Hour Spartan Ultra World Championships which returns to Iceland for the second year. The event is set to take place on December 8, 2018, with more than $125,000 in cash prizes on the line.
Savage Race introduced a new Inside the Obstacle video today. Matty T shows off the new obstacle Pedal For the Medal. It's a completely new take on a tire pull, but instead of pulling with your arms your legs do all the work. Savage Race continues to add new twists to some staple obstacles, creating a whole new challenge.
Matty T is back of Savage Race with a look inside the new Savage Race obstacle Battering Ram. Battering Ram is just one of the new obstacles that Savage Race has introduced for the 2018 obstacle racing season. Yuri Force, a 30x Savage Race Champion offers his tips on how to get across this new obstacle.
