5,700 already set to be Tough Mudders

More than 5,700 of the lean­est, most rugged and hard­ened com­peti­tors have signed up already for this spring’s Tough Mud­der chal­lenge at the for­mer Cleve­land Quarries.

You could be one of them.

A horde of thou­sands will charge for­ward from the start­ing line April 14 and 15 on a 12-mile quest.

Maps of the course show they’ll have to crawl under barbed wire, scale wooden walls, slosh through mud pits, leap logs, swim under­wa­ter tun­nels, and climb rope nets.

“What we’re see­ing is now that we’re into the new year, peo­ple are look­ing to set res­o­lu­tions and goals for them­selves,” said Jane Di Leo, a spokes­woman for Tough Mud­der. “They want to do some­thing intense, so they come to us.”

This is an excerpt. For the full story, read the Jan. 18, 2012 issue of the Amherst News-Times.

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