It's a week and a half since the World's Toughest Mudder, and a little more than a month since the Carolina Mudder, and I figured I would put together a quick update on what's going on.
First: Carolina Mudder. Started with the Bad News! team at 8:20 and immediately got hurt on the Arctic Enema. I hit a chunk of submerged ice and it cut my eyebrow open. It was bleeding pretty badly, but I kept going because I was so cold. Got through the next obstacle and was pulled aside by some medics in a golf cart/truck combo. They suggested that I get stitches, but there was no way I was leaving the course that early (unless I absolutely had to). They put some gauze and a piece of tape on it, and I kept going. Luckily, the bleeding stopped pretty quickly, but the bandage fell off about half-way around the course. I ended up not going to the emergency room at all to get stitches, although, I probably should have since it was a pretty nasty gash. Ended up buying butterfly bandages and hoping for the best. Since it's been about a month, though, I can say that I do have a pretty noticeable scar over my right eye now.
Team Bad News! finished the mudder around11:45. It was a pretty good lap, and I think we could easily have finished under three hours if I hadn't had to spend 20 minutes with the medics. The good news was that we finished in time to make the turn and get off for a second lap at the last start time of the day. The noon start was fun, but it was very slow going. Only three of the five members of Bad News! made the turn, and one of them probably shouldn't have. He ended up being pretty banged up, and I think that he probably should have stopped after the first lap. The thing is that, it meant that we didn't actually do much running on the second lap, which we finished at around 4:30. We only skipped one obstacle the entire day, and it's gnawing at me a little bit that we didn't at least attempt it. I guess that's not too bad, though, considering we were pretty crushed by the end.
The best part of the whole day was running with a pack of people in our second lap who knew that we were doing a second lap. We got a lot of props from people during that lap, and it felt pretty bad-ass to know that people were thinking of us as crazy.
It's left us thinking that we need to up our game though. Now we're trying to find a fourth person to make a team that would qualify for the World's Toughest Mudder next winter in NJ. Our objective would be to do 4 circuits of the course in the 24 hours, and then see what happens. That's a whole new level of madness though, and a pretty sizeable investment in materials. First thing first, our next mudder is scheduled for early March in Miami. The plan is to do another two laps...
First: Carolina Mudder. Started with the Bad News! team at 8:20 and immediately got hurt on the Arctic Enema. I hit a chunk of submerged ice and it cut my eyebrow open. It was bleeding pretty badly, but I kept going because I was so cold. Got through the next obstacle and was pulled aside by some medics in a golf cart/truck combo. They suggested that I get stitches, but there was no way I was leaving the course that early (unless I absolutely had to). They put some gauze and a piece of tape on it, and I kept going. Luckily, the bleeding stopped pretty quickly, but the bandage fell off about half-way around the course. I ended up not going to the emergency room at all to get stitches, although, I probably should have since it was a pretty nasty gash. Ended up buying butterfly bandages and hoping for the best. Since it's been about a month, though, I can say that I do have a pretty noticeable scar over my right eye now.
Team Bad News! finished the mudder around11:45. It was a pretty good lap, and I think we could easily have finished under three hours if I hadn't had to spend 20 minutes with the medics. The good news was that we finished in time to make the turn and get off for a second lap at the last start time of the day. The noon start was fun, but it was very slow going. Only three of the five members of Bad News! made the turn, and one of them probably shouldn't have. He ended up being pretty banged up, and I think that he probably should have stopped after the first lap. The thing is that, it meant that we didn't actually do much running on the second lap, which we finished at around 4:30. We only skipped one obstacle the entire day, and it's gnawing at me a little bit that we didn't at least attempt it. I guess that's not too bad, though, considering we were pretty crushed by the end.
The best part of the whole day was running with a pack of people in our second lap who knew that we were doing a second lap. We got a lot of props from people during that lap, and it felt pretty bad-ass to know that people were thinking of us as crazy.
It's left us thinking that we need to up our game though. Now we're trying to find a fourth person to make a team that would qualify for the World's Toughest Mudder next winter in NJ. Our objective would be to do 4 circuits of the course in the 24 hours, and then see what happens. That's a whole new level of madness though, and a pretty sizeable investment in materials. First thing first, our next mudder is scheduled for early March in Miami. The plan is to do another two laps...
