TOUGH MUDDER: A financial obstacle for the endurance race

For the past several years, the "extreme" endurance race called the Tough Mudder has been held at Unionville's Plantation Field, with filthy but grinning squads of athletes clambering over intimidating obstacles and slogging through mud pits.
But this year the status of the race is in question. Tough Mudder was forced into bankruptcy in January by its creditors, who say the company owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars for constructing the obstacle courses around the country.
Tough Mudder's rival, the Boston-based Spartan Race Inc., has bought Tough Mudder's British operations and will continue to run events there, but a sale on this side of the pond is still working its way through bankruptcy court proceedings in Wilmington.
Tough Mudder's website still shows an event scheduled for Plantation Field on May 16, but registrations are not being taken. In a Feb. 11 article, The Wall Street Journal quotes bankruptcy trustee Derek Abbott as saying that "the events scheduled for the first three quarters of 2020 are no longer salvageable."

Some of the equipment used to build last spring's Tough Mudder course at Plantation Field.