PLANTATION FIELD: Tough Mudder returns

The Tough Mudder competition is returning to Plantation Field May 19 and 20. The organizers, with their characteristic understatement, promise "Same Epic Venue, Brand New Course" where "you and your team square off against 10 miles of the most insane, mud-drenched epic you’ve ever seen." 
Tough Mudder involves a boot-camp-like course with some twenty obstacles, such as giant walls that you have to clamber over, getting wet and filthy in the process.
For instance, the "Shawshanked" obstacle: "Starting with a barbed wire low crawl, this obstacle ups the ante as Mudders have to drag their muddy bodies up a culvert pipe, and find themselves perched at the end of a 5-foot drop into the cold water below."
Or the "Kiss of Mud 2.0":  "With less than 18” of clearance between tangled rows of barbed wire and your bum, and a floor of slushy cold mud beneath you, there’s nowhere to move but forward."

People pay good money for this. I have otherwise sensible gym friends who actually love doing this, talking about the teamwork and camaraderie involved, and have already started training for it.