McGuire AFB Mud Run Race Report

Oh my! Last year, the course was tough. This year, the course was upgraded to include twice the number of obstacles and the little creek we ran through for a few 100 feet last year was upgraded to a 1/4 mile "run" through 3 to 4 feet of water. Words simply cannot describe this course, so I think it's best to just let the pictures do to the talking...

Mud Run Team HATR T-shirts designed and printed by Butch

Course Map

The gang...

...the rest of the gang

This was the shallow part

You can also check out more pics of the gang making their way through the course over at pinnacleshotphotos. Click on the individual links below and when prompted, enter "beastofeast" as the password (without the quotes). Many thanks to Frank for sifting through 3000+ photos to pick out the HATR's.

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There Will Be Mud...

For those of you coming to the Mud Run on Saturday here are a few notes...

We'll be meeting in the parking lot behind Santino's in Robbinsville at 6:30am and then heading out in a carpool down 130 South towards the Air Force Base. Be sure to have photo ID on you or you will not even be allowed on the base. If you prefer to meet us at the base and need directions, click here.




Wear old clothes and shoes. Whatever you wear is going to get trashed, literally...I promise. If you want to wear something crazy, go ahead. I don't just mean Nike shorts with an Adidas top either, although, this is the one day that Nate will let you get away with "brand mixing". Costumes are encouraged and prizes are awarded.





Bring a towel, a change of clothes (including dry socks), a change of shoes, and a large garbage bag. There are open showers for you to rinse off in and gents and ladies tents for you to change in. You'll want to have a bag to toss all your wet, muddy, smelly gear into...especially if you're riding down with me!





Leave your jewelry, garmins, and any other other valuables at home or locked up, out of sight, in the car. If you want to take pictures I suggest picking up a cheap disposable, waterproof camera. There will be at least one moment in this run though where you will start thinking more about survival than anything else. Chances are pretty good it will be when you are neck high in freezing cold water and then you look up to find that you need to pull yourself up a cliff. If you make it through that first easy obstacle though there are plenty of other chances. My point being the less you have to carry the better off you'll be.




Above all else, be ready to have fun and get dirty! Remember this is not your average 10k race so don't expect your average 10k time. You will probably not PR, you will probably not win your age group (well...Frank might), but you will definitley laugh your ass off and be telling stories about the mud run until Christmas. The aches and pains should be gone by Thanksgiving though.






After the run we'll be getting cleaned up as best we can and heading directly to Mastoris for brunch so join us if you can...you will be starving...and thirsty...and very, very tired...but perhaps not in that order.

Additional tips, faqs, and info are available on the Mud Run website.

If you still have questions or concerns leave a comment or email me.