I signed up for a mud run called the Dirty Girl 5K, I was influenced by my friend Joy. Her MOPS group put together a group of ladies and she invited me along. I resisted at first, but figured I could check it out since she promised she wasn't a runner! :)
Plus, I HAD been working out 4 times a week so, I had some muscles growing!
The morning of I was tired, Nate just got home from being out of town for work at 1am and I had to get up and be ready by 8. Sans coffee- didn't want to dehydrate myself. I was NERVOUS! I wanted to back out and call in sick! rely on my injury and instructions from the chiropractor.. I didn't though, I pushed through.
The race started at 10am, It wasn't too hot but, in the sun it was toasty. We crawled through the mud straight out of the gate and then walked forever with sagging pants. My shorts were above my knee when i started, they were capris by the time I was mid-way and they were flapping against my leg like, weird elephant ear skin? not sure how to describe it. My shoes were so heavy with mud that was a workout on its own... After the initial mud crawl, I didn't mind it much. We went down a slide into a mud pit- FLEW down it and landed butt first. It was pretty hilarious! Various other obstacles broke up the walk, There was a bungee cord maze you had to step and bend through, a bouncy wall climb that you had to bounce back down awkwardly, a couple short walls to climb over and lots of walking through mud and muddy water, which was utilized as a bath by most.. hee hee.. gross. the two toughest obstacles for me personally..
The rope climb, you climb up a triangle shaped of rope squares, ring a bell and throw your body over this pole and climb down the rope on the other side. I am afraid of heights.. but, as my friend who is also afraid of heights, was nervous up there, I was in a "zone" I didn't even let myself go there to the fear side. I just did it as slowly and best I could. I completed it! wahoo!!
The other tricky one was what I called the spiderweb rope. You climbed up and had to make it across not one, but two rope nets you had to make your way over. When you get on the rope it dips down in the middle and its so weird to get across. I had my own plan and it worked but, I did end up with weird dot bruises around my knees from crawling over all the rope knots..
The muddy tubes with a tarp over them you had to crawl through, I am claustrophobic, but I did it! as soon as I knelt down on my knees and put my head under the tarp I wanted to jump out but, I just crawled super speed through it. Amazing!
Overall, I was pretty impressed I completed the obstacles and the walk. I was beat up and sore for days but, It was fun and the mud on the hot day felt gross but, nice and cooling at the same time. At the end we got to go to the shower tent which is a bunch of naked women using garden hoses to spray themselves down.. bonding experience!?!... Usually modest I had to get the mud off so I stripped down to my skivvys and sprayed down twice! still had mud in bad places when I got home. I am glad I did it, it was fun and it showed me that I am stronger than I thought. My next 5k will be cleaner however!
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