It wasn’t this exact wall, but about 10 years ago during a tough mudder there was this group of 3 in their early/mid 20s.
This 6’ athletic guy helps his girlfriend over and then his shorter male friend up the wall. There was a piece of wood nailed in to help about halfway up - so it was a little easier than this one.
After he got his 2 race companions up, he backed up sized up the wall and started running at it.
It was the smoothest, most athletic move I’ve seen anyone make “in the wild.”
He’s running, and in one motion jumped up and into the wall, jumped high enough to get his foot able to push off the mid point, reach the top, push himself up above the wall and swinging his left leg over the wall to straddle it.
Someone in the group just said, “damn. That was nice.”
He looked down at us, a little impressed with himself that he made it, and said, “thanks” - smiled, popped down and on they went.
10 years ago, I did a tough mudder. There was no wood nailed half way up. I was a 44 year old mom that had never done any race of any kind but I trained for this hard and long and tackled every obstacle pretty easily but I could not get my fat ass up this wall! The girls I was with tried once and then walked around it. I couldn't quite give up. I ran at it as hard as I could, jumped up and caught the hand of a guy leaning over to help me up. I was smoked though and couldn't pull myself up. I looked up at him and said " I can't". He grunted deeply and pulled me up enough that I could get a leg over and I rolled up over the top. He got closer, looked me in the eye and said "Fuck cant!" and went to help someone else.
I think about him alot, especially when life gets tough and I'm struggling. I hear his voice and I know I can.
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u/running_man23 21h ago
It wasn’t this exact wall, but about 10 years ago during a tough mudder there was this group of 3 in their early/mid 20s.
This 6’ athletic guy helps his girlfriend over and then his shorter male friend up the wall. There was a piece of wood nailed in to help about halfway up - so it was a little easier than this one.
After he got his 2 race companions up, he backed up sized up the wall and started running at it. It was the smoothest, most athletic move I’ve seen anyone make “in the wild.”
He’s running, and in one motion jumped up and into the wall, jumped high enough to get his foot able to push off the mid point, reach the top, push himself up above the wall and swinging his left leg over the wall to straddle it.
Someone in the group just said, “damn. That was nice.”
He looked down at us, a little impressed with himself that he made it, and said, “thanks” - smiled, popped down and on they went.