Personally I'm not much of a runner. I'm more in for sauntering. But people everywhere are doing these “Mud Run” / “Tough Mudder” races.

I guess just regular jogging gets boring so someone came up with the idea of: “Hey, let's make people run through big ditches filled with goo and as long as we're at it lets charge 'em a handful of cash to do it.”

And world wide people have come out of the woodwork to participate. OK.

Well France’s version of a Tough Mudder race resulted in a “mystery outbreak.” Turns out there “MUD” was not mud at all but “POO”. You know, animal feces. Opps.

Nearly 8,400 people gathered at Nice’s Côte d’Azur on June 20 for the Mud Day race. The 8-mile course contained not only mud, but obstacles such as electrified barbed wire. Hell yeah!

But about 24 hours after the race about 30 runners started vomiting, had fevers, and started experiencing diarrhea.  Now that redefines "Fun Runs"!?  And hey, if ya like to run over electrified wire what's not to love about a little projectile vomiting?

The days to follow saw more than 1,000 participants getting sick. A local health agency is currently investigating the cause of the illness.

Word is that lots of runners reportedly smelled horse manure during the competition. But come on if your gonna be a tough mudder why let a ditch filled with horse cookies slow ya down?

Event organizers posted a message on Mud Day’s official site earlier saying:

“We have immediately decided to make every effort to determine what could have caused the stomach upsets.”

Now I'm no Scientist but maybe it was the Equestrian Crap?

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