Tough Mudder Training

So, I'll be running the Tough Mudder (again) in May of 2012.

Last year I raised about 600 bucks for Wounded Warrior and I'll probably be nagging you all again for money as that event gets closer.

My training regime has settled down into this:

Monday lunchtime: 1 hour of conditioning class. This involves 55-60 mins of exercises divided into 2 or 3 minute rounds. This usually starts with  jumping rope and then exercises like pushups, burpees, planks, situps, plyometrics, ball & mace swings, Indian clubs ,tug of war, rope climb... plus some more exotic stuff that our instructor picked up in his 30 years of martial arts training. Its fighter conditioning, basically.

Monday evening. 2 hours of Muay Thai classes.

Tuesday: rest

Wednesday is the same as Monday

Thursday: rest

Friday: 1.5-2 hours of Savate classes. These are more technique-focussed, but work balance and flexibility instead of being the savage metcon of the Muay Thai workouts.

Saturday: 1- 1.5 hours of , Bag work, and weight exercises. This varies a lot. I've been doing the 300 Workout from GymJones.com, the Tough Mudder workout, or things I make up on my own using weights, rings, the C2 rowing machine etc. .

Sunday: Run day. Ive been going over to the gravel pit near my house. Nobody's there on the weekends, and its about 50-60 acres with a lot of ramps and slopes and hills. I go faster up the hills --note that I do not sprint, but I do try to go faster. I usually go for about an hour or so. As I get closer to May, I'll work in more runs.

Tough Mudder. Done.

Thanks to everyone who sponsored me for my little trot up and down the gentle rolling hills of VT. Here are a few stats on the race:

• 10 miles long

• 13,000 feet of overall elevation change

• 7000 feet of climbing

• 28 different obstacles including 4 12-foot walls, a 15-foot jump into 45 degree water, a log carry up and then down a very steep slope.

I finished with very sore knees about 4.5 hours after the 10:20 am start time. And lunatic that I am, I have pre-registered for next year. But I'm bringing Advil with me next time.

Tough Mudder Here I Come

As the long time readers of this blog (both of you) know, I'll be running the Tough Mudder  on Mt. Snow this Saturday. The race covers 10 miles up and down the mountain, and 28 obstacles including stuff on fire, and a 10,000 volt shock.

Tough Mudder is a fund raiser for the Wounded Warrior Project. So far I've raised nearly 500 bucks for this worthy organization.

Please sponsor me and help out the men and women who have been hurt in the service of our country. 

https://www.raceit.com/Fundraising/donate.aspx?event=2937&fundraiser=r797650

Here's a little more on the race: www.toughmudder.com  

And here is the Wounded Warrior Site: www.woundedwarriorproject.org.

Thanks to my friends and family who have already donated.