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[Osmosis Jones]

Whelp, myself and a friend are doing it. We start training this weekend

[MaximumZero]

Keep us informed!

[Osmosis Jones]

Will do. We'll probably end up doing it costume, too. Thinking maybe labcoat and goggles, though I'm open to suggestions.

Training starts out on sunday with a week of running to start to build up some basic stamina (plus, I'll be moving house next weekend, so I don't plan to start brutalising myself just yet). Then we'll start on core and upper body workouts in earnest after that.

[Starver]

And here was I thinking that this thread would be about extreme text-based online RPGing.

[Jackrabbit]

I'm a Melbournian, but I'm 16 and I think that joining you in doing this would probably qualify you for child abuse, willing or no. But man. Give me four years and I am so in.

[Osmosis Jones]

First training session complete... 6 km run destroyed me, and the following weights session was a perfect way to show off how piss-weak my physique is. This is going to be a fun 2.5 months

[inteuniso]

Gonna do it in Virginia: First I have to get my knee into shape (Having a permanently damaged knee is not conductive to any sort of exercise) then I'm going to exercise. Also no idea if 17 year olds can enter but I hope they can. Will give me a reason to push myself physically again.

[King DZA]

Love a good challenge. Gonna have to check and see if there'll ever be any near me.

[Osmosis Jones]

Gonna do it in Virginia: First I have to get my knee into shape (Having a permanently damaged knee is not conductive to any sort of exercise) then I'm going to exercise. Also no idea if 17 year olds can enter but I hope they can. Will give me a reason to push myself physically again.

Love a good challenge. Gonna have to check and see if there'll ever be any near me.

That's the spirit! No pain, no free beer!

[jester]

Im in sunny melb as well, though i think my copious drug consumption gives me a free pass on things like this. 

[Osmosis Jones]

So, I just figured I'd post a little progress.
In 7 weeks of training, I've gone from pretty well unable to finish a 6km run without walking, to just finishing 18kms in 1:59:40, an average of just over 9 km/h.

Also I can now do about 7 wide grip chin-ups without assistance.

YAY fitness!

[Osmosis Jones]

So, while almost no one is reading this, I still figured I'd post an update. I ran it this saturday just gone and completed the course

Spoiler: VICTORY (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: My mate Yuri (left) and I (right) before the race (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Us entering the starting pen. You had climb a 2m high wall just to get there. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Reciting the TM Pledge (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: One of the first challenges was another set of walls. They got much bigger; final set was almost 4m high! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: One of the harder challenges; walk the plank (click to show/hide)

You had to swim across the lake, quite difficult in runners!

Spoiler: Fire walker was another bastard. Can't see, can't breathe, WAAAYYYY too hot. I have a new respect for firemen though. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Some other images (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Some of the other contestants! (click to show/hide)

[Starver]

While I originally came to this thread under a misapprehension, I'm reading.  Well, it''s popped up as a "new reply to my posts" thread, which is essentially the same thing.

Basically, well done.  (Does sound a bit platitudinous, but sincerely meant.)

[Il Palazzo]

You're my hero, Osmosis. A tough scientist, which describes exactly what I wanted to be when I was younger and still had dreams...

...oh, I have wasted my life! ;(

Anyway, that's seriously awe-inspiring. And looks like hell of a lot of fun.

Also nice outfit, still the teletubbies win on the creative field. (they must've sweated their arses off in those suits, though)

[lorb]

To be fair, there are Tough Mudder events around the world. Now you guys don't have any excuse

If i'm correct there is only one single event in continental europe (Berlin 2013)