The September 6 and 7 Tough Mudder event is gearing up with the arrival of the event construction staff.
Bob Cromwell, Event Coordinator with the event hosts, the Drumheller Festival Society, said the course’s early construction crew is getting familiarized with the terrain and the initial course outline.
“They’re sort of mapping and charting it out, finding what the biggest obstacles are, in and amongst that maze down there,” said Cromwell.
The course, designed by British Special Forces, starts on the Stampede Grounds and works it way into the valley.
The Tough Mudder course holds more than twenty challenging obstacles over its 16 - 20 kilometre long stretch.
Cromwell said that positive comments have been building about the course and where it’s laid out, noting it may be the ultimate Tough Mudder course yet.
“The Tough Mudder office, head office in Brooklyn, New York, seems to be getting more and more ecstatic about this event,” he notes of the Drumheller Tough Mudder.
He said that Tough Mudder has indicated attendance numbers are on track for the endurance obstacle course.
The highest number of participants estimated for the event is around 8,000 people.
