Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
'Tough Mudder' in Finsbury Park
The Tough Mudder event, which is taking place in Finsbury Park this weekend, consists of running routes and assault course challenges spread over many areas of the park. From the pictures, the aim seems to be to get as mud-covered as possible. Tickets cost £100.
While it's great that people use the parks for exercise and relaxation, a large number of people running together on already soggy ground is going to cause serious damage to the grass and woodland of the park, just as it's coming into it's most beautiful season. The muddy fallout from a similar event on Hampstead Heath last year took many months to recover, and our park is significantly smaller.
It breaks my heart how little the council prizes our natural green spaces and is willing to sacrifice them in this way in order to make money, even under the aegis of 'health and wellbeing.'
Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park , mudder", tough
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Beth Anderson "We had a Park stakeholders meeting last night [Monday] with the Council and we had a list of questions that we had to ask. Tough Mudder was not on the agenda last night, neither was their five-year deal that they are proposing with Live Nation. We tried to ask questions and we were told that we would come to these issues at the end of the meeting. As we got to the end of the meeting we could see that time was running out, we kept being told 'we'll come to this at another time, we'll have another meeting".
Reporter "And that was the deputy leader, Mike Hakata?"
Beth Anderson "Yes".
Transcript from broadcast interview.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Trudy and I walked through Finsbury Park on Sunday morning on our way to the Woodberry wetlands. Our route took us from the Endymion Road gate and along the metaled road to the Manor House gate. Seen from this series of vantage points, there seemed to be no part of the park that was not given over to frantic activities involving running and/or crawling through mud including through purpose-built troughs of water. Most of the energetic participants seemed to be adults under 30 and most were completely smothered in mud. The running routes crossed our path in several places which left trails of caked mud across our way.
I found it hard hard to imagine what form of pleasure this was. To some extent, it resembled the kind of challenges used to sift out candidates for certain military regiments. If the participants really paid £100 each, it suggests that our country lacks more suitable facilities where people so inclined can go to disport themselves. It would be interesting to read more about this topic, perhaps from the viewpoint of those who took part.
I am quite sure that Finsbury Park should not be used to satisfy demand for this particular form of fun.
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Permalink Reply by Konrad B on
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I saw £100 on the Tough Mudder web site for the FP event (site no longer available) and if you look at the website for the next event London West in early May the prices start at £100 and £100 for London South in September. And £100 is the lowest price! So if Tough Mudder says £100 I am inclined to believe them.
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I paid £47. I'm inclined to believe me. That might however have been an early bird price.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Next event is starting at £100 according to the organisation’s website
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It responds to Dick's question above.
I have no doubt that people paid different prices at different points in time to enrol in the FP event. There are cheaper and more suitably located alternatives.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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You are right, too. [Rabbinical story.]
Meanwhile in another part of the forest . . . .
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