The RunAmuck 5K Mud and Music Festival sounds like basic training for Navy SEALS, held at Woodstock. Blaring music, water hazards, slime, filth, and comradarie make it one of the most outrageous (and fun) exercises on the running circuit.
The RunAmuck 5K took place around Lake Needwood in Rockville last month. It is one of a series of mud runs that started in California a few years back, near (where else?) Camp Pendleton. They have spread around to other parts of the country under different names, like Muddy Buddy.
The Rockville RunAmuck is a good, hard 5K trail run with a three crossings of the muddy (and mucky) lake, two sloshes through man-made mud pits, a few scrambles over wooden barriers and some hoofing through agility grids.