COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURES
FOR 2021
TOUGH MUDDER EVENTS
As we return to hosting events in 2021, ensuring your safety and the quality of your on-event experience is our #1 focus. Over the past few months, our team has been working with local officials and independent experts to fine-tune a suite of safety measures designed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission at our events.
Included here are the guiding safety principles and plans that we’re currently planning to implement at all of our scheduled 2021 events. We’ll continue to monitor trends, work with local officials to comply with their guidelines and restrictions and adjust our plans as needed based upon guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and our independent epidemiologist experts.
*All registered attendees will receive safety information specific to their event (following input from state and local officials) via email between 1-3 weeks prior to their event.
To read more about our Covid safety measures, including our conversation regarding safety with our Epidimilogist, check out the Tough Mudder Blog.
KEY SAFETY PILLARS

We’re rolling out pre-event selection of start times, and capacity will be initially limited between 25% and 75% of traditional capacity to provide for smaller start waves and less crowding in the festival and on-course.

Participants will need to complete a pre-event health screening survey and receive their digital “all-clear” to present upon entrance to the event. All staff will be tested and cleared regularly, prior to travel and while on-site.

Staff and volunteers will be wearing face coverings, and protective barriers will be installed at interaction points. Participants will be required to wear facial coverings while not on course, and should plan to bring their own mask. We’ll have an extra clean one for you at the finish line.

We’ve gone cashless, and are working to reduce contact points and well known areas that cause congestion. We’ll be rolling out an enhanced cleaning program, including self-service wipes in locations like the portable toilet and food & beer seating area. Hand sanitizer, provided by Tough Mudder partner Every Man Jack will be available throughout the festival and at every obstacle on course.
YOUR COVID TOUGH PLEDGE
Tough Mudder is all about teamwork– and we all need to stick together to keep our entire community safe when returning to the mud. While we’ve got a solid plan in place to protect you, here’s how you can do your part:
- Stay home if you are sick or have been in contact with someone who is sick within the past 14 days. Consider taking a pass on the event if you’re part of a vulnerable group and haven’t yet received your vaccine.
- Be Informed! Read all event communication and signage, as it could contain important safety information on new event procedures and policies. Follow the instructions of medical personnel and Tough Mudder Staff.
- Respect social distancing and look for any visual cues like signage and ground markings that indicate where to stand and how far apart to be from fellow participants.
- Practice proper health and hygiene methods for hand washing, hand sanitizing, sneezing, coughing, etc.
- Wear a face covering when not on the course.
- Show up on time at your assigned arrival and start time.
- Give yourself and others some space.
- Thank the volunteers, they are there to keep you safe and help keep you going.
- Consider the safety of yourself and others around you.
- Respect the host community and venue.
• Check-In (Registration) area
• Restrooms
• Start Line
• Obstacles
• Water Stations
• Merchandise tent
• Food and Beverage queues
• Anyone who has had potential exposure to a COVID-19 infected person within the past 13 days will not be permitted to enter the event, and their ticket will be transferred to a future event at no cost.
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• Food items and product samples will be individually packaged and self-service.
• Rinse stations will allow for greater distancing, and changing tents may be omitted to allow for increased ventilation.
• Gear Check will be in an enclosed, secured outdoor area without overhead covering to promote ventilation. Attendees should plan to bring their personal items in a waterproof bag.
• Water-based obstacles are treated each morning and contact obstacles will be sanitized at scheduled intervals. The CDC has noted that transmission of COVID-19 via water and pools is highly unlikely.