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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Fair Lawn High Women Are 'Tough Mudders' [Video]

High School faculty members ran through fire, swam through ice and wriggled under barbed wire to conquer grueling special forces obstacle course.

On May 12 in Pocono Manor, Pa., 10 female Fair Lawn High School faculty members trekked 12.5 miles and tamed 25 outlandish obstacles to complete one mind-blowingly memorable challenge. Along the way, the women ran through fire, swam through ice, trudged through mud, wriggled under barbed wire, plunged off precipices, tolerated 10,000 volts of electric ecstasy and captured it all on helmet cam. “It far exceed anything I could have imagined,” one of the brave finishers said after her first Tough Mudder experience. “It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done.” Tough Mudder events, the first of which was held in May 2010, send thousands of participants through a 10-plus mile obstacle course designed by British Special Forces to test the runners’ …

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