What Is a Tough Mudder—and How Should Runners Train for It?

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What Is a Tough Mudder—and How Should Runners Train for It?
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Ready to train for a ToughMudder this fall?

extends to a full 24 hours, with 20 to 25 of some of the most intense obstacles the series offers.

Some people even measure success by the number of Mudders they aid. Last year, at World’s Toughest Mudder, Railton says he saw a team hang out by Everest—an obstacle which involves scaling a 13-foot quarter pipe ramp, made more challenging with an extra curve at the top—for the full 24 hours, pulling other athletes up over the obstacle.

So how do you prepare for these types of shenanigans? “There’s really no one answer; everybody’s so different,” Railton says. The light-hearted training video series he produced for Tough Mudder, Dedicating some time to upper body and grip strength will help carry you through obstacles like the Funky Monkey—an extreme version of monkey bars over water—and Hold Your Wood, in which you’ll team up to tote 75-pound logs around.

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