"Don't forget to drink chocolate milk after the run!" The voice of my high school cross-country coach echoed in my head as I crawled through the muddy water at the Rugged Maniac Obstacle Race in Brooklyn.
Scientists suggest that wild gorillas use tools to overcome physical obstacles in their rugged habitat, rather than to forage for food, like chimpanzees and orangutans.
Using GPS-tracking data and step-selection functions, we found that cats moved in an optimized fashion suggesting a maximum energy gain associated with high rabbit presence, while avoiding landscape obstacles such as rugged terrain.
It said: "... even sharp-breaking waves are no obstacle to this rugged speedster, with its Indy wedge construction & aerodynamically designed tunnel hull".
Although I am somewhat of a "veteran racer" and have participated and won numerous obstacle races, including Rugged Maniac, RAID New York, and City Challenge, the idea of running without any hurdles to jump over, nets to crawl under, or tires to lift absolutely bored me.
PrivHab uses a waypoint-based routing that achieves a high performance and low overhead in rugged terrain areas that are plenty of physical obstacles.
The x2 on the other hand is more rugged, featuring knobby wheels and an elevated chassis for clearing obstacles that might lay in your path.
I became an aficionado of alternative races (i.e. obstacle races like Urban RAID, mud runs like Rugged Maniac, and scavenger hunts like Great Urban Race) when I ran my first race last summer.
Though I have participated in and conquered numerous obstacle races in the past year, including the Urban RAID Championship, Rugged Maniac, Spartan Race, as well as another City Challenge Race in Jersey City, I still feel a mix of emotions--excitement, nervousness, and anticipation--whenever I am standing behind the starting line and waiting for the race to begin.
