The best thing about this race is Mario and I did it together. It was so great running a race with him. I have a small hope that he is going to eventually like running a little and will do 5k's with me, but we will see. But it was really neat to actually have him beside me for the race instead of waiting at the finish line for me.
We ran the race on Sunday at 11:30am. We had to park down the road and be bussed into the race. It was very interesting.
Once we got there we saw exactly what we imagined. It is like a Renaissance Festival 5k. There are people dressed in all different costumes and matching outfits. There are turkey legs and pints of beer everywhere.
There was a pile of shoes in the middle of the road that people are donating to charity (I looked up which one so I could tell you guys b/c it was a great cause but now I can't find it anywhere). The shoes from Saturday were there so it was already a big pile when we got there, Lance and Andi added to the pile. I hate to be the person whose job it is to clean all of those shoes. There were some pretty nasty ones.
Mario, Andi, Lance and I ran the race together. My plan was to walk most of the race because my calf had been bothering me again after the indoor tri. But of course once we started off and we were jogging it felt really good. So I was going......being careful......but going......
Andi and I ran together for a while and then walked for a while, we alternated that for a little bit and then Andi decided she was done running. That was fine with me. I wanted to do this with her b/c this is probably one of the only races I don't care too much about my time and since we run at such different paces we never get to do races together.
Lance and Mario started running together but Lance soon realized he would rather walk as well. We did most of the obstacles together. After a while Mario and I started running to the obstacles, just to run, and would then wait for Lance and Andi before doing the obstacle. It was really fun to do it all together.
I think my favorite obstacle was the cargo net. I enjoyed climbing, that is something we as adults don't do that much anymore, not as much as kids do. I also thought the jumping over fire was pretty cool. I looked at the pics the WD people take and I didn't realize I could jump that high. I was going to make sure there was no way fire was touching me.
The last obstacle is where they get you muddy. We had to crawl under barbwire in the mud. It was very gross and to top it off Mario dropped his expensive sunglasses in there when he did a belly flop so I was feeling around in the mud as well. We never did find them. But we did all finish and took our "finisher" photos and got our medals.
As you can imagine there was mud everywhere. All in our shoes, squelching between our toes, in our shorts and Andi found a good amount in her top. It was pretty gross. Mario was wondering what in the world was in his pockets and he thought, did I put some crumbed up paper in there, etc. So he stuck his hands in to see.....this is what it was......
......two globs of mud!
The funniest thing to me was the rinse off area. The lake. And to get to the lake you have to go through about 20 yards of mud. Very interesting. I did go out there just b/c I was sooooo nasty but it didn't too much good. But I never did take my nasty shoes off until I got back to the car. There was no sense in changing into my flip flops, I would just get muddy again.
After we rinsed off we went and got our free beer. Luckily for Lance I don't drink beer so I gave him my ticket. You had to turn in your timing chip to get the ticket and his somehow came off during the race. (he's not an official finisher) We then listened to the band that was playing and went to the finish line to see if we could see Niki cross over. Her wave was an hour after ours. We got a great view of everyone jumping into the mud pit, crawling thru it and then crossing the finish line. And we did see Niki finish as well. You could tell she was having a blast she was grinning from ear to ear.
We then decided to head back to the car. Mario and I had a softball game later that day we needed to get ready for. We all changed at the car. We just held towels up and changed.
The entire experience was so great. We had such a great time and we can't wait to do it again. We are all four signed up to do the Beach Palooza race in Sept already. And we will be back for WD next year and maybe some of the other ones as well, like Muddy Buddy, etc.
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