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Sent May 15, 2013
Lucky there was a photographer in this pit.

The mud run event series returns to New York City

What has mud, obstacles, banana suits and a 1,868-word event waiver requiring participants be covered by medical insurance?

You'd have to be crazy to put your...

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Sent April 25, 2013
zombie race

Flee from the undead at this nationwide event

If Zombies can help explain public health, can mud runs help explain America's Purell obsession?

Probably not, but why not test your chances of surviving a contagion outbreak at Long Island's Zombie Race?!...

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Sent April 23, 2013
six flags

Run an obstacle course at a theme park

But if that 5k is followed by a day of crazy fast roller coasters, diabetes-ridden cotton candy and high-pitched screams, then hurling your brains out is totally legit...

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Sent March 14, 2013
Mud Run Rave?

A mud run that gets musical

The last time you arrived — filthy and exhausted from hours navigating obstacles and other competitors — at the finish line of your last fun run, we're sure the first thing that ran through your mind was, I wish the whole race had a DJ!

Well you're in...

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Sent February 27, 2013
Raining mud

A fast-paced obstacle footrace from England

There are quite a few valuable lessons we can learn from the British, like how to party naked in Vegas or oversee a sprawling empire that eventually collapses under its own...

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Sent February 20, 2013
Beats the monkey bars

Run a 5k through a forest!

Tarzan swung through vines like a boss, buried ape poachers and got the girl.

And he did it in a loincloth...

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Sent February 12, 2013
The Most Dangerous Game, circa 40BC

Try a prehistoric mud run

Humans were in a lot better shape when we had to run from woolly mammoths on, like, the regular.

And the Track Meat 10K is a prehistoric obstacle hunt reminding humans why...

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Sent February 5, 2013
Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area...

Escape hard time at this prison-themed run

Admit it, we've all wanted to be falsely accused of a murder, go on the run trying to prove our innocence and face off against Tommy Lee Jones at the mouth of a weird water fall/sewer thing.

Well now you can (sort of)...

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Sent January 30, 2013
One of the crazy obstacles at ROC

Events we want to go national

They say if you do the same exercise at the gym everyday, you'll never get any stronger. And the same holds true for fun runs.

Which is why we'd pay to...

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Sent January 25, 2013
You'll know it when you see it

New York City's wackiest race rolls up this Saturday

If you haven't been on Instagram in the past 30 seconds, it takes two steps outside to realize what an arctic tundra New York City has become.

So it's only fitting that the...

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