If so, I’d be interested in (1) how long it took you to complete the course, (2) what obstacles you found most difficult, and (3) what fitness level you are, how seriously you took it, etc.
I am doing this with my girlfriend this coming weekend and am trying to get an idea (just in terms of making plans for the day) how long it will take us to do.
I did it in about 45 minutes or so. I don’t have really strong arms, so the part that I found most challenging was climbing the net. I run on a regular basis but don’t do weightlifting or anything like that.
I’m also competing in October. Although the challenges for my race don’t look that thrilling to me. But I think the natural surroundings determine that.
I’m a 36-year-old male, six-cigs-a-day smoker who did nothing but anaerobic training.
Final place: 1131 of 4642 (top 25% of finishers; 882nd in gender, top 33% (89 of 276) of age group.).
Total time 39:15.00 = 12:40 per mile.
Winning time was an absolutely sick 21:51:30 for an inhuman 7:03 per mile.
Aside from the 10 DNF/DNS and the inexplicable 13-hour time that I HOPE was the result of timekeeper error, worst time on the day was 1:28.04/28:25 per mile.
Top woman finished in 70th place with a time of 28:50.70 for a still-unattainable (by me, anyway) 9:18 per mile.
FUN FACTS ABOUT WARRIOR DASH RESULTS:
Scrappy was smoked by a little girl half his age, as a fifteen-year-old girl finished in a time of 32:43:25.
Oldest man to smoke Scrappy: 59.
Oldest woman to smoke Scrappy: 53.
So, unless you’re out of shape, you’ll have a good time.
Toughest obstacle for me was the long horizontal cargo net- it was near the end, and keeping every limb and core taut to navigate it sapped my last little bit of strength.
You want tough? You want Tough Mudder. I’ve actually started training for that- this year it’s Memorial Day weekend at Snow Summit.
It’s not really my thing - but a lot of people like it. What really ruined it for me was the water slide with hay at the end - I went face first and had to use my hands against the hay bail to stop at the end. The hay put 1000 miniature cuts into my hands, and they itched for two weeks.
You don’t really need any training, unless you actually want to try and place or something. Many people walked the whole thing. I ran it with a friend who was just getting into exercise at the time, somewhat overweight and who was hit by a passing Jeep as a pedestrian a week or two before. He had to go a little slower because his back was still bothering him, but he finished.
The best part of it was that the event was a mockery of itself. I mean, they gave soft furry viking warrior hats away - you can’t take yourself seriously when you have stuffed horns. So at least they had the right attitude about its difficulty level