Soggy Shawna

A few weeks ago, a girl from work invited me to do the Mad Mud Run with her. Basically a four mile run that had "boot camp like" obstacles spread out along the way, including a mud pit to crawl thru. Of course I was in! The run was beginning and ending at a park directly across the street from my work. On Friday I was pulling up to work and there was this huge dirt truck in front of me taking up like the whole road. Hello. . . get outta the way! So annoying. . . then it dawned on me that this truck must be holding the mud (dirt) for my mud run the next day! So then I wasn't so annoyed. :)

The event was much smaller than I anticipated. . . which was nice. They started us off in heats, five minutes apart. We began by running through a grass field where they armed the spectators with water guns and hoses, And someone even had a fire hose hooked to the hydrant! Then we had a couple mile run uphill. Our first "obstacle" was a couple of bales of hay we had to climb over. After that, a "hill run" which was basically a rocky little mountain. Then we hit the balance beams. The final obstacle was supposed to be a 6-foot wall to climb over, but that had to be removed because of the wind, so the back up obstacle was a "water wall." They basically had a water truck out there that hosed us down as we ran by. Then the finale. . . the mud pit of course! I don't know if it really should have been labeled a mud pit. . . water crawl might be more appropriate. Cuz that's what it was, some really dirty water.
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I personally didn't have any fans, so pictures were not taken, but we did take a picture at the beginning, so we could take an "after" picture at the end.


Ha-- who knew they would look almost exactly the same way! I thought I would be covered in a little bit of mud!! Oh well-- it was a fun little event that got my bum out of bed this morning, so no complaining there!