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Adventure Sports |
Mud Running Kit Guide |
See also: www.mudrun.ca |
Wear comfortable clothes.
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- Get Your Mud Running Kit
We recommend that you wear old comfy clothes. They will get seriously wet and dirty during this event, but also protect you from cuts and bruises.
Army surplus shops can help you get "geared up" from head to toe.
They have most of the gear listed below.
- Try Your Kit
Before the event try out your kit under muddy race conditions.
Jump into a bog or a lake, then go for a run, then jump in and run some more.
If you have no bog or lake nearby, take a shower or bath in your kit and then go for a run.
It would be annoying if you find out half way through a mud race that your kit gets uncomfortable or starts chafing when wet and muddy.
- Wear Boots
Unless you want to slip and suffer, leave those sneakers at home!
You'll need a pair of boots with good tread, especially after your first stomp in the mud.
Sneakers do not have enough traction with all the mud that will get caked on.
Plus, the hills of dirt that you climb along the race have been known to eat a sneaker now and then
because they come off so easy.
Don't duct tape your shoes, just double-tie your laces.
- Wear Thick Socks
Wear ankle socks, preferably the ones made for running.
This will prevent blisters and help your feet feel just as good as the day before the event.
Definitely no cotton socks. Cotton + water = blisters.
- Wear Long Pants
You'll need these to protect your legs in the deep, dark mud pits.
Unless you're just training, avoid thick cottons that absorb and hold water and mud and add weight.
Wear tight, small clothes.
- Wear Shorts Under Your Pants
Being able to shed down to your shorts versus your muddy "used-to-be-white-underwear"
will make the outdoor co-ed showers a much more enjoyable experience.
- On windy days
Wear a cagoule, a rain top with no zip.
Zips can get clogged with mud.
- Don't wear goggles or sunglasses
Contact lenses can be a pain when mud gets in your eyes.
- Bring a change of clothes (including shoes)
You'll remember just how important this is when your carpooling buddy refuses to let you put your muddy body in their clean car.
Bring a towel for the showers
- Soak it
Believe it or not, the mud does come out of your clothes!
All clothes will get seriously wet and dirty during this event, but showers are often provided to rinse most of the dirt off.
Soak everything (even your boots) in a garbage can or other container and keep rinsing and soaking until the majority of mud has disappeared.
Then you can throw your clothes in the washing machine.
- Bring a Garbage Bag
This is to put your dirty clothes and shoes into for the drive home.
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