With the announcement of Tough Mudder jumping into the OCR TV world, it's time to take a step back and see what the networks are missing when it comes to obstacle competition shows, and we've uncovered a game-changer: Wonder Women.
OCR superstar & World's Toughest Mudder 2-time Champion Junyong Pak faces off against up & coming local athlete Arley Cohn on the 1-mile mountaintop course at Bone Frog Challenge.
Merrell, a well-respected brand in the world of off-road running, hiking, and water sports, makes its first foray into mud runs with their Tough Mudder All Out Crush. We got our hands (feet) on a pair of the TM-branded ones and the standard red model, and put them through their paces.
Obstacle course racer Beni Gifford gives us some background on his team's Season 1 win of Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, how he picked his teammates, the fights that nearly tore the team apart, and what it felt like to win $50,000
Tough Mudder continues #ObstacleWeek counting down the top five fan-favorite obstacles. Today coming in at #2 is King of Swingers, the obstacle that makes you take a leap of faith and have you swinging for the bell. It takes guts, determination, and timing to get this obstacle right. Enjoy your favorite and some never before seen moments from the obstacle. Today is all about King of Swingers at #2.
Move over Shark Week because starting Monday, June 13th it's #ObstacleWeek at Tough Mudder. Tough Mudder is dedicating the week to the obstacles you love or love to hate. The Tough Mudder community has cast their votes for the obstacles they most love. Starting Monday, Tough Mudder will release new videos capturing your favorite obstacles in action as well as other epic announcements each day of the week.
Year-in and year-out, Warrior Dash proves its worth as being one of the best mud runs for beginners, as I wrote in this article on that subject last year. One could argue their obstacles and event is somewhat formulaic, and that's exactly what I want! When I'm recommending a race for first-timers or fun-seekers - whether to millions of people* or a group of parents and teachers at my daughter's school, I want to know they are going to get a safe, fun, experience that I know each and every one of them can handle. Period.
In some areas, the wall is beautiful; the stones you walk on and virtually every surface you touch is made out of bricks that were fired in a kiln. The structural ones were quarried, and the base is basically mounds of packed earth, but the wall becomes a sculpture on the surface. In other areas, the Great Wall is nothing more than a pile of rubble. Some parts have completely disintegrated and you'd never even know the wall was there.
BattleFrog Series is nothing if not ambitious; scaling an event from 3-6 events is a big deal, and moving into a new state is fraught with difficulty on levels of magnitude to putting on an event in your home market - ask any race company in (or out) of business now. What BFS did is beyond definition, and beyond reckless for any other event to even attempt. The sport is littered with the carcasses of races that tried, yet this is not a homage to their failures, it's a nod to the audacity of BattleFrog's ownership and executive management; they have a plan of action that would make any CPA tremble.
Savage Race 2016 kicked off in Dade City Florida on March 19, debuting 5 new obstacles: PoleCat, On the Fence, Squeeze Play, a yet-unnamed "Mystery Obstacle" and the new SAVAGERIG. Mud Run Guide follows the action and brings you the men's and women's winners, "Air Force" Ken Corgliano and Rachel Corvington (just a couple weeks before their wedding!)
