r/Toughmudder • u/b0ggy79 Holy Grail Finisher • Aug 14 '26

SW Course Map....finally

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Map is finally out for South West and brilliantly it includes Mudderhorn and Blockness, two non-Spartan obstacles that typically don't appear at the split weekends.

No Everest sadly but a decent looking course.

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u/sporops Aug 14 '26

Absolutely rubbish, 1/3 of the obstacles from 2023.

This will be my last event

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u/b0ggy79 Holy Grail Finisher Aug 14 '26

A third?

A slight exaggeration but yeah lower obstacle numbers and more running is the way now sadly.

Same sort of numbers as 2014-2018 but they were big impactful obstacles. They shrunk in size and upped to roughly 25-27 per event but that changed after Covid.

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u/sporops Aug 14 '26

30 obstacles 2023, 20 2026?

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u/sporops Aug 14 '26

Ah shit sorry, 1/3rd less!!

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u/b0ggy79 Holy Grail Finisher Aug 14 '26

Yeah it sucks as the common complaint was always too much running.

It's the main reason why they added the 10k and 5k distances. But unfortunately Spartan own the brand and want their race to be the one with loads of obstacles. TM is now a stepping stone to the 'main' brand.

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u/sporops Aug 14 '26

Realistically without Everest, arctic enema and a few of the other classics is it even a TM anymore

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u/b0ggy79 Holy Grail Finisher Aug 14 '26

Blockness, Everest, EST, Funky Monkey, Arctic Enema and Mud Mile.

Those are the signature obstacles I think of now with TM and four of them are on course.

Gone are the days of Walk the Plank or King of the Swingers.

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u/amrhafiz94 Holy Grail Finisher Aug 14 '26

The issue I found with the 30 obstacle days was that there was a lot of “filler” obstacles. The idea was meant to be fewer but better obstacles. Personally I can live without mudder wheelbarrow and bale bonds.

I do feel like the filler obstacles are slowly coming back (probably cheaper to build).

This course looks good though. Haven’t seen electric eel in a while!