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100 Mile House participants: Tough Mudder Whistler worth the sweat and muck
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Team Focused Fitness members accepted the challenge from Tough Mudder Whistler 2013. They included: Shelly Harnden

Tough Mudder 2013 at Whistler Olympic Park on June 22 put at least one nine-person team from the South Cariboo through its gruelling paces.

The 18-kilometre obstacle course, meant to test participants' physical and mental strength while they work as a team, threw challenges like a dumpster full of ice and water to swim through, mud-filled trenches to navigate and electrified wire to crawl under.

Shannon Pennicott was a member of the local Focused Fitness team, and for her, it was a great experience.

We had fun throughout the whole way with mud fights and lots of support and laughter. Some things were challenging, but we had trained hard and a lot was mind over matter.”

This was the second Tough Mudder in the same year for Kathleen Hartard who also did the Las Vegas event in April.

Whistler was a lot more fun because there was way more mud,” she says.