At his gym, Tony Weathers was known as Weatherman—a ripped demigod who could curl 225 pounds and run a mile in under 5 minutes. Outwardly he was a humble sort, but inside, down to his bone marrow, he hated to lose. If his fitness class was assigned one sprint around the gym in 15 seconds, Weathers ran two. If a coworker beat him in table tennis in the company break room, he challenged the victor again and again until he won. So on Saturday, April 14, as Weathers paced around the starting line of the Original Mud Run in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, he was probably synchronizing every cell in his body to win it all. Even if he didn’t finish first, he told his friends, he would be among the top 10 finishers. Just wait. (Are you competitive to a fault? You might share something in common with this veteran baseball player.)
The starting line sat atop a levee that managed the occasional flooding of the Trinity River
Read more at Men’s Health: http://www.menshealth.com/health/mud-run-risk-factors?fullpage=true#ixzz2BTov6mTj
