A few weeks ago we talked Libby into coming up to visit and run in a Survivor Mud Run. The race was about an hour away, and as we got closer we got more and more nervous. This is what we looked like when we arrived.
As we walked to the starting line we were seeing a lot of people that were dirty, but they didn't seem that dirty so I thought that we would not be getting too dirty. The race was 3.3 miles and I think it had 14 obstacles. We also ran it with our friends Shannon and Rob (Rob works with Jared). Some of the obstacles were climbing under cargo nets in the mud, running through tires, climbing over rope walls, running through the river, climbing up a cargo net. These were the clean obstacles.
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| Cargo net crawl. |
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| Trying to make it up the wall. |
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| Libby, up and over! |
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| A little running, our knees down are pretty dirty. |
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| Jared and Rob. |
About half way through Libby and I decided there was no way we were coming out clean. So we slide head first into the mud pond where we tried to climb over logs (not very successfully). It was so slippery that everyone was knocking everyone else over. By that point we were a mess. We had several obstacles to finish. Jared got stuck in the mud when he tried to help someone else get out, and as he was getting out of the final obstacle he thought it was over and he went jogging from the obstacle through several puddles, except the last puddle was a deep puddle and he fell all the way in. We were all pretty muddy. Here we are waiting in line for a shower, and yes it is raining.
Jared's face was the best, all the mud was stuck in his facial hair.
Here is Libby before a shower.
And sadly this is me after a shower, and a rinse in the creek.
This is Libby after she thought she was all clean too.
The race was a ton of fun and it took two showers for most of us to get clean.
