Wednesday 29 August 2018 14:57, UK
Tough Mudder returns to Sky Sports this week with the first of two new series – both designed to test competitors to their limit.
Tough Mudder X is the ultimate race. A one mile course packed full of obstacle challenges and workout zones, it pits the world's best athletes against one another in a competition to not only win $25,000 but to be crowned the World's Toughest Athlete.
Tough Mudder X features the best athletes from OCR, Crossfit, Ninja Warrior and more and follows them from qualification, through the semi-finals to the Tough Mudder X finals in which the best 10 men and 10 women fight to take those all-important podium spots.
Episodes 1 and 2 look back at the 2017 Semis and Finals from Minnesota and fthe 2018 edition that took place in Richmond, Virginia takes centre stage in September.
For seven years Tough Mudder has consistently been at the top of the obstacle innovation game, while also researching and developing the best functional fitness regimes to help people take on OCR challenges. In that time OCR has grown as a sport in its own right with its own roster of incredible athletes.
Tough Mudder X bridges the gap between fitness competition and Tough Mudder's world-class obstacle courses and looks to introduce even more people to the incredible community that was born out of the events.
And then in November, the action goes up notch as the Toughest of Mudders gets tougher - a 24-hour race that represents the pinnacle of of the global Tough Mudder event season.
The 24 hour race is probably the toughest challenge on the planet and it gives the most hardcare OCR athletes and Tough Mudder fans the chance to push themselves to their absolute limits.
We'll look back over the last two years with The Road to World's Toughest Mudder as well as the event itself - tracking the remarkable stories of the athletes involved in their build-up and training before action from the 2017 and 2018 races.
