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Graphic: Tough Smudge with ChatGPT Building Upper Body Strength for Tough Mudder | Power Tower Build + Tough Smudge Update
A new Power Tower has joined the Tough Smudge home gym. While unboxing and building it, I talk through the journey so far and why improving upper-body, grip and pulling strength is becoming an important part of my Tough Mudder training.
Graphic: Tough Smudge with ChatGPT From Malham to World’s Toughest Mudder | Big Plans, Ink, Mud & Smudge
A walk around Malham, Janet’s Foss, Gordale Scar and Malham Cove becomes an excuse to talk Tough Smudge, future events, The Smudgery, new ink and the slightly questionable idea of doing another Tough Mudder straight after World’s Toughest Mudder. Watch the latest Tough Smudge vlog on YouTube.
Photo: sportograf.com After the Mud: Recovery, Reset and Back to Work
Tough Mudder South West is done. Two runs, one weekend, plenty of mud (😂 ok not much mud, more dust), a fair bit of travelling and, unsurprisingly, a body that has spent the first few days afterwards reminding me exactly what I put it through.
Badminton Estate, Tough Mudder South West Photo: Andrew Smith Twice Through the Mud: Tough Mudder South West
A Tough Mudder weekend becomes a slightly different beast when the first obstacle is getting yourself halfway across the country before you have even reached the start line.
Photo: Andrew Smith The Ink Beneath the Mud
There is something fairly obvious in the photographs of me running Tough Mudders that I haven’t really talked about yet. The tattoos.
Photo: sportograf.com Start of the Journey
I’ve no doubt this is going to be a wild journey. At the weekend, I think I found a little bit of a calling. My legs were sore. I’d just completed my first-ever 15K run, my first Tough Mudder and my first obstacle course race.
Photo: sportograf.com Tough Mudder Yorkshire 2026
Tough Mudder Yorkshire | 15k | Completed. There were probably easier ways to find out whether Tough Mudder was for me. I chose the 15K my first Tough Mudder event and the first proper test in what has since become a much bigger endurance journey.