Recently, the Tough Mudder Tour 2014 has been getting a lot of publicity, and are on the verge of becoming famous. Just prior to the Sunshine Coast Tough Mudder (check out the review), TMtour2014 and myself were featured on the front page of the local The Whitehorse Leader newspaper. Apparently my (crazy) idea of running in all 5 Australian and 1 New Zealand Tough Mudders this year is quite a story! The interview and photo shoot were taken in a park in my area (not on course of a Tough Mudder event unfortunately), on a very cold and rainy Friday afternoon.
Welcome to the official Sunshine Coast Tough Mudder review, by TMtour2014. As you know, we are running every single event in Australia and New Zealand this year, and reviewing each one for you. If you want, you can check out the Melbourne and New Zealand reviews too. I have decided to give two reviews for Sunshine Coast this time around, one a more personal review including the day’s pre and post event, and which was more about my time up on the Sunshine Coast doing Tough Mudder, and then this Official Review, which will be going into detail only about the event itself. You can have a read of my personal review here. This Tough Mudder was marketed a lot more than previous Mudders in Australia. I feel this is because it was 111 days since New Zealand Mudder and Sunshine Coast, or 146 days between Australian Mudders Melbourne and Sunshine Coast. There was a long time between events, so obviously they marketed it a lot more than usual. Also, This Mudder weekend there was 5 events across 4 countries, on 3 continents for 2 days. 1 Mudder Nation. A lot of effort went into making this weekend huge across the Tough Mudder world, and it paid off, with over 60,000 participants globally. But enough about how good a business Tough Mudder is, let’s get into what you want to know – how the actual event went.
This is my personal review of the Tough Mudder weekend, including my thoughts, how I went and everything else that happened (including the non Mudder related) on the weekend. You may be more interested in reading my review of the actual event, rather than my weekend. That can be found here. That focuses more on the event, how it went, what was good and what was bad.
As you all know, the Tough Mudder Tour 2014 is traveling a fair bit this year, to attend all 6 Tough Mudders in Australia and New Zealand. With Sunshine Coast Mudder happening this weekend, and our flights leaving in a few days to head up to sunny Queensland, I thought I would put together a little picture, and work out exactly how far we will have traveled this year total.
In this weeks “How To” series, we will be enlightening you with your event day preparation for your next Tough Mudder conquest. This will be invaluable information for all first time Mudders, but Legionnaires will also benefit from reading this and using it as a small refresher course pre-Mudder! So your Tough Mudder event is coming up this weekend. You’ve done all the training, you’ve begun you carb loading, and you are as prepared as you possible can be … or so you think. As Tough Mudder veterans, TMtour2014 know exactly what to bring to make the weekend a much smoother experience. Here is a list of some of the necessary items that you should bring to your event:
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