Friday, June 10, 2011

Warrior Dash 2011

Last Sunday I ran the Warrior Dash with three of my friends/boot camp girls.

We started our nice and clean in our fringed and beaded cammo shirts, courtesy of Michelle. We ended up really muddy and gross and minus a pair of shoes.



(me, Michelle, Lisa, Noelle)

The giant pile of shoes. You really don't want to keep your shoes after wearing them in the race. They're disgusting. So this charity takes them, industrial cleans and sanitizes them then sends them to third world coutries. Pretty cool.


We took a waterproof disposable camera with us throughout the race. We weren't trying to win. Obviously. Or even be a tiny bit competitive. We just wanted to have fun, so our goal was to finish in under an hour. The guy who won? He ran it in something like 22 minutes or less.



It's in Hocking Hills so most of the course is hilly. And it had rained the night before so it was super slick with mud. So slick and hilly that instead of running, we did a lot of careful hiking.





I'd just jumped in over a dead fish. Awesome.





The best part? Jumping over fire. This was the second to last obstacle. Just before the crawling to mud part.


See, very muddy.





On the shuttle bus back to our car. We'd been sprayed off by a giant hose so while from a distance it might appear we're slightly clean, we weren't.


I think we might do it again next year. It was fun. Mud and all.


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3 comments:

Marie said...

so. cool. :)

Amy Sorensen said...

Glad you enjoyed it, Erin! The pile of shoes at the end is hilarious. ;)

Renee said...

that is awesome!! you are cool!