On Sunday morning, with hangovers that would kill lesser men, the Guild of Adventures donned our running gear (I made mine by taking a knife to my trousers), wrapped socks around our shoes to keep them on…and strode out onto the Killing Fields of Tough Guy Nettle Warrior 2013…
Murderbeers nice and clean before Tough Guy Nettle Warrior 2013…
…17km of barricades, lakes, fires, stinging nettles, electric shockers, fire, mud and cramp… In short, just about the greatest experience we have ever had.
You have to check this out!! Watching this video makes me genuinely proud to have been part of this madness. Totally, totally awesome 🙂
Tough Guyâ„¢ from Mr Mouse on Vimeo.
Anyone wondering what I looked like as I crossed the finish line of Tough Guy 2012? Well, wonder no longer – here is the very sight, in all its unimpressive glory:
Tough Guy 2012 was 9 days ago. Since then, all the exercise I’ve managed is a couple of hours of submission wrestling on Thursday, a deadlifting and back session at the gym on Monday and a bench press and chest session this evening.
Hopefully, these pictures will explain why… Continue reading
I did it. I am now, officially, a Tough Guy.
This year was the Year of the Lion Heart…which is just about the only thing that got me to the end. It wasn’t fitness and it certainly wasn’t preparation – it was nothing but grim, visceral determination and a lifetime’s worth of being-an-idiot rolled into one.
You see, although there were a variety of weird and wonderful costumes through the event, the vast majority of people were clad in very sensible clothing, warm, water-resistant and lightweight. I, by contrast, had thermal underwear…beneath a t-shirt and a pair of swimming shorts.
Sounds funny, right? It wasn’t. Or rather, it was a little funny for the first hour or so. After that, it became…well…just look at the pictures.
I am very excited to announce I have received my various paperwork for Tough Guy next weekend.
Well, 50% excited and 50% worried… I mean, check out how much they sent me…
Each of those pages is double-sized and FULL of instructions. Start times, locations, safety instructions, kit lists – everything I could possibly need to know, along with SIX MAPS!!
I’m not sure what I’ve signed up to that requires its own instruction manual, but I suppose it’s all part of the chaos.
For some reason, I’m still not sure why, I have signed up for Tough Guy Winter 2012.
When the organisers describe Tough Guy, they do so using one word: deprivation.
They then use 200,000 more words, to boggle the mind and utterly confuse anybody taking part as to what is actually involved! Continue reading
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