This was my first Tough Mudder and honestly, it was not worth the money at all. We queued for half an hour to park, queued for nearly an hour to check in (there was no phone signal at the event so people could not access their tickets/QR codes), we then queued for another hour to actually start the race. The groups you set off with are MASSIVE, so when they do the warm up at the start there’s not enough room to do anything. When you start you catch up to the previous group so quickly and the queues for obstacles are huge. I did the 5km as I assumed it would be constant moving, however I probably stood still waiting for longer than I was moving for and due to this could have easily done the 15km. The obstacles were nothing like advertised and only 2 we did involved any mud. The craw under barbed wire was just crawling in dry soil that was covered in bits of glass and when I raised it to a marshal they went “we haven’t seen any glass” and walked away from us. We started the course around 14:00 and finished about 16:00, due to the excessive queues at each obstacle. The queues were mainly caused by the excess amount of wall obstacles, because if you’ve struggled to get up one wall, you’re going to struggle to get up the 4 more that are exactly the same.There needed to be a better variety of obstacles that are actually tough and muddy. Bigger obstacles to fit more people on or significantly smaller groups would have helped massively. An event that seems to just be about earning as much money as possible by putting as many people as possible through the course, rather than making it a fun experience for people.1/5 as at least I got a tan from standing around!
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Tough Mudder is a series of hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle race - mud run events designed by British Special Forces to challenge the toughest of the tough.