Barbed wire. Broken bones. Wait, you paid to do this? The unlikely appeal of adventure racing
Why otherwise sane people voluntarily get shocked by live wires, slathered in mud and beaten with jousting sticks — all in the spirit of competition.
America's latest obsession: the Tough Mudder, and other similarly brutal obstacle races. I sludge through a waist-deep lake in 37-degree weather to find out why.
