We were in the first wave of the day on Sunday morning, so we arrived bright and early to get checked-in. Of course we needed some before pictures, to remember what our clothes looked like when they were actually clean.
(Bill had a helmet-cam...can't wait to see his video highlights!)
A lot of the warriors really get into the spirit of the event and come in costume. We saw a man dressed as Marilyn Monroe, a nun, lots of super heroes, fat guys with butterfly wings, some super-fit ROTC guys wearing nothing but pink tighties, and even Lt. Dangle.
We lined up in our corral a few minutes before go time, and as the starting fire blasted, we took off at a pretty fast run. The whole course was about 3.4 miles, and there weren't any obstacles for the first mile or so. We had planned to take it easy, but I think we were running about a 9:30 pace that first mile. The first obstacle had about six 4' high walls that you had to climb over, alternated with barbed wire fences that you had to crawl under. After that, there were some steep hills to climb, a bunch of junk cars and old tires to climb over, a long river of knee-deep mud, a tower of hay bales, a cargo-net wall, a little wall to climb up and then rappel down, a big wall to go up and over, an elevated horizontal net to climb across, a big tangle of ropes to cross through (I totally looked like Catherine Zeta Jones in that one movie with Sean Connery), two rows of fire to jump over, and the infamous pool of mud to get through. None of the obstacles were too hard to get through, and they were just hard enough to make it fun and interesting. We all looked forward to seeing what obstacles were waiting for us next. I was having fun in the mud pool at the end, but the whole bottom of the pit was lined with gravel. My hands and knees were pretty sore by the time I finally got across (you had to stay down low in the mud because there was barbed wire above you).
So we crossed the finish line, lined up for the infamous 'after' pictures, got rinsed off by a fire hose, drank some beers, and started making plans for next year's run!
I finished in about 46 minutes, but I definitely didn't push myself to my limit... we kept it at an easy jog after the first mile. I haven't decided if I want to go all out next time, or take it easy again and just enjoy the course...I'd hate for it to be over too soon!
Joel and I are so glad to have such awesome friends that enjoy doing silly things with us...Doing cool things makes for great memories.
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I'm all for fun and silly, but something about trudging through a canal of mud.....ew. I don't deal with that well. Maybe one of these days I'll brave up enough for something like that. Until then, I'll just have to live my Warrior Woman life vicariously through heroines like you!
PS - My word verification is 'chinkler' and that strikes me as incredibly funny. No idea why. I think I'll add it to my vocabulary anyway, just to confuse others and amuse myself.
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