COSOHCTON - After a year without the Indian Mud Run, obstacle course racing (OCR) enthusiasts were thrilled to once again participate in one of the country’s most celebrated events of its kind. Last ...

HAVERHILL — They come to the Muddy Princess 5K Obstacle Mud Run for Women for a variety of reasons: to raise money to fight breast cancer, to get over an abusive relationship, or just to feel athletic ...

COAL VALLEY -- One by one, the people climbed over the steep, muddy hill, laid on their bellies, and slid into the murky trench, yelling nearly all the way down. Some attempted to stay on their feet, ...

My mother and I are two miles into a 10k mud run obstacle course in Riverside State Park on Saturday when the athletes bottlenecked behind us in the tire pit start complaining. Loudly. Apparently ...

OROVILLE — For 9-year-old Dakota Richardson, the hardest part of the Lord’s Gym Kids Mud Run was the net climbing, while the best part was the ice bath near the end. Saturday marked his third year ...

LOS ANGELES — With macho-sounding names like Tough Mudder, Warrior Dash and the Spartan Race, obstacle course races have turned mud, sweat and tears into a flood of revenue. Over the past year, ...

Splish, splash, slosh and wash. And wash. And wash some more. Saturday’s Mighty Mud Mania in Scottsdale will lead to some major hosing down and scrubbing clean — but who cares? For the first time, the ...

It may seem asinine to pay hard-earned money to sign up for a day of crawling under barbed wire, jumping over fire, and schlepping weighty logs, but obstacle courses provide an exciting challenge that ...

Swimming through chocolate-colored pits, crawling along gritty, grimy ground, climbing up mini mountains of mud, dripping with sweat and gulping air dense with humidity, does it surprise you that ...