Tough Mudder Arizona

Never wrote up my summary of the Tough Mudder I ran in February... so here goes: it was a lot of fun!   Let's see if I can remember some highlights...
- the super cold water one was indeed crazy cold.
- the inclined walls were nuts, I felt bad for my friends that had to help me over all these walls, I feel like I had no upper body strength to pull myself up over them at all.
- I lost my go pro camera (with just an elastic strap on my head)... when they say "hold on to your camera", they really mean it.  When I did the big jump, I thought I was holding my head, but the race photos later prove that that only lasted a second before I wasn't holding on to it at all!  What a waste.
- the rings and monkey bars were nearly impossible for me (two rungs or so before just falling)... I think again, power-to-weight ration / hand strength were to blame there
- Everest was cool, made it up on the first try (with people there to help at the top)
- I thought the crawls were pretty fun too... even the electric eel
- the final electroshock therapy wasn't as bad as people think... I feel like I dodged my way through pretty well, just getting my calves zapped a few times (and an involuntary skip at those times).

Overall it was a blast, and I definitely want to do it again.  We took around 2:45 to make it through as a team.