I had never heard of a “mud run” until I found out that the New Harmony Fire District in St. George, Utah will be holding one on May 22. They are hoping to draw 300 to 1,000 participants for the cross country event in which racers will encounter military style barrier walls, culvert pipes, tires and mud pits. The course lengths will be 1K, 5K, and 10K. This will be the first ever mud run conducted in southern Utah and one of the highest elevation mud runs in the nation, topping out at 5,000 feet.

Here are a couple of before and after photos of a team from CrossFit in Cedar City, UT that tested part of the course.

All photos are from the fire district’s Facebook page. More information about the mud run is HERE.

Apparently mud runs are a big deal in some parts of the country. Camp Pendleton Marine Base in southern California holds several of them each year that always sell out quickly and attract thousands of participants.