On Friday I gave a presentation at work about my upcoming Tough Mudder event (squaw valley sept 17). The question came to how I’m planning to train to which I had absolutely no idea. I figured I would eventually come up with some sort of plan, but with only 43 days remaining my time was starting to run thin. Since that day (yesterday), I’ve already done 3 workouts and since I’m betting other first timers are going to be curious how to train for their first Tough Mudder, I’ll document my 42 day regimen on this blog. So without further bs, here are my past 3 workouts.

Friday - crossfit class at defiance crossfit. First we did a warmup which consisted of the following

600m run, various stretches and 15 each of pullups, kettlebell swings and goblin squats.

Then we did a strength workout where I did about 8 sets of 1 rep each of 125 pound thrusters.

And then the all fun Death by Burpie workout where you start with 1 burpee on the minute and then do 2 burpees at the second minute and so on and so forth until you die an can’t do anymore. I lasted through half of my 11th round before being the first to die :(

Then I came home jumped in my cold ass pool and called it a workout.

For my second workout and first of my day today, I ran the Dish over near Stanford - that’s a nice chill 3.5 miles.

About 2 hour later, I did the real sprout for the day. James came over and we went over to a local park where we did this whole obstacle coarse on the kids playground. This consisted of pullups, monkey bars, rope climbs, some rock climbing and a few others. Then we ran over to Gunn High and ran a burpee mile on their track - 4 sets of 400m followed by 10 burpees after each loop.

So not bad way to start my training. My goal for these 42 days:

Get in sick shape Be able to run the big loop at Rancho without feeling like I’m doing to die Go to crossfit regularly and to stop coming in last :) Do lots and lots of pullups, pushups, burpees and sit-ups.