Tough Mudder

The Mitchell boys competed in the Tough Mudder this year up out in Tooele at the Miller Motor Sports Park. The 12.1 mile race consisted of over 20 obstacles including the ice enema (jumping into freezing water loaded with ice), funky monkey (inclined monkey bars), electric eel and electro-therapy (swimming through water with an electric current and running through live electrical wires), and many other draining obstacles. Not to mention that they were doing this in the cold October weather with a pretty mean wind chill factor at 8:00 in the morning. It was so much fun to watch them all and get to participate in the event a little bit as well. Julie (My mother-in-law, Taylor (my sister-in-law, married to Jake's twin or Nacho in the pictures below) and I all volunteered at the event. We had to be at the park at 6:00 a.m. to prepare for the event so it made for one long day for us as well as the boys. All in all, it was a fun weekend and we were glad that Doug, Hal and Julie were able to fly in for the race as well. 

Happy Volunteers!! 

For a portion of our volunteering Taylor and I got to shave mullets and mohawks for lucky contestants.

In these two pictures they were jumping from a 25 foot platform into a 15 foot deep pool of freezing water. 

I think this picture of Matt is just awesome! Actually, all pictures of Matt at this race are just awesome. He was a celebrity at this race. People would constantly come up to him and want pictures with him. 

Yet another awesome picture of Nachoooooo!! 

This was the other station that Taylor and I volunteered at, Everest. This was a pretty intense obstacle, it was the second to last one and everyone was exhausted at this point after running 12 miles and fighting through really rough obstacles before this one. Watching the people help each other out and fight through it may have just made me tear up a little bit. For some reason, this kind of stuff gets me emotional... 

Of course a picture of this little cutie, he was a champ through the freezing weather! 

The after shot of the Tough Mudders with their greatly earned finisher bands! 

"If you have to sign a release form, it's probably worth doing."