After being one of many COVID casualties last year, the MAAS Titan Macquarie Mud Run will be held again on March 27.
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The obstacle course/mud run event has be held at the end of March every year since it's inception but was cancelled last year.
President of the Mud Run Committee Rod Fardell says everything is ready to go for the event even with the ever-changing restrictions.
"We're looking really good actually, obviously everything has been in a bit of a hold and wait pattern in relation to COVID," Mr Fardell said.
"Obviously a lot of the states are making changes very quickly or overnight, we put our application forward and council, NSW health and the police are happy for us to go ahead, we're revved up and pumped to go."
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Mr Fardell admits more than 500 participants have already bought tickets but he is expecting more to come before entries close.
"We've got about 700 entries, a lot of those have rolled over from the previous year, were we had to postpone and cancel it, but the people and local community have been absolutely fantastic in letting those tickets roll over which has been fantastic for us.
"We are looking for a massive event and we understand people are going to sign up late and now is the time."
Held along the Macquarie River, the course is 10kilometres long and features obstacles such as river crossings, barbed wire crawls and tire carries.
Mr Fardell says the event has been slightly altered to abide by COVID guidelines.
"Basic regulations in relation to social distancing and making sure we have marshals available to insure that all works out well, we'll have plenty of hand sanitizer and cleaning stations there and we have also removed a number of key things that will provide touch points but outside that we are roaring to go with our obstacles," he said.
"We will have a bigger split probably a smaller group of people start each ten minutes so that will give us a greater separation in groups so they will be in small cluster but it won't take away from the event at all."
An elite wave of participants can take part in the timed event or there is non-timed event as well as an under 15s wave.
"I think the kids event will be massive this year as well," Mr Fardell said.
"We've had great business support from our sponsors."
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