But you don't just jump into this sort of test without prepping for it first. Those dedicated and daring enough to accept have to transform from average Joe to sports pro.
But this mountainous task hasn’t been enough to faze many in the alternative finance industry, with some of its survivors including Masthaven's Andrew Bloom, many of the Brightstar team and Voltaire Financial's Andrew Hosford.
In whether the challenge was what he expected, he said it was: "much harder - the course was much more up and down and muddier due to the rain."
Also getting in on the charitable assault course, Ying Tan and his team at the Buy to Let Club are taking the Tough Mudder training as no joke. Around 50 per cent of its office are getting involved and have even have employed the use of a trainer, as well as gadgets, namely an app known as ‘RunKeeper’.
Ying commented: “We use RunKeeper to track activities - it has a leader board which helps push us on and drive each other. When you are looking at your phone on a Saturday morning in bed and a notification pops up that one of your colleagues has just completed a 10K run, it helps us to get out of bed and run!
What made you decide to do the Tough Mudder challenge?
How is the training regime going at the moment?
Are people monitoring each other's dietary habits?
"Sadly, the list isn’t small, but every one of their names will be printed onto my ‘Stand up to Cancer’ T-shirt which I intend to wear at the finish line. I thought this would be a small gesture to thank all of those who have sponsored me. If you want to sponsor me and have a name added to ‘the list’ please do so on the Just Giving website
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