Tough Guy 2015

The Tough Guy Challenge, an annual event to raise cash for charity, took place Sunday in Perton, England. Every year, thousands of men and women tackle the course of 200 obstacles, described on the Tough Guy website as eight country miles filled with freezing mud and "barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia, acrophobia, claustrophobia, electric shocks, sprains, twists, joint dislocation and broken bones."
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