I’m back in frigid NYC after a weekend of shooting Tough Mudder Arizona at the Mesa Proving Grounds. The site, formerly the proving grounds for General Motors, was a pretty vast expanse of desert with some interesting features like a half-destroyed banked track and random piles of asphalt. The weather was great and the course was 12.5 miles long – almost a half marathon even without the 29 obstacles. Both Saturday and Sunday featured at least one participant completing the course on a prosthetic leg. These tough, inspiring badasses are a huge reason shooting Tough Mudder doesn’t get old for me. More badassery after the jump.
Arctic Enema (nee Chernobyl Jaccuzzi). Looks like steam, right? That’s thanks to the dry ice. New feature…
Junked cars at the Zombiepocalypse (mystery obstacle)
Mud in the eye is never fun
Team from the Wounded Warrior Project
Love this T-shirt
He made it across Twinkletoes with the flag
Iraq vet; lost his leg to an IED.
This is kind of what I look like after a day at Tough Mudder
Loved watching this family team go through the course on Sunday
Earmuffs!
He took off his leg and handed it to a friend so that he could do a flip off Walk the Plank
Putting the (Manchester United themed) leg back on.
This has to be one of my favorite Tough Mudder shots ever
Discarded gloves at Funky Monkey
Electric Eel was particularly painful on Sunday
This girl seemed truly disturbed by the proceedings
Never too tired for Acro Yoga
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