The Dirty Dash

One of my very best friends, Heather, asked me several months ago to run in the Dirty Dash on her team.  I agreed and started preparing, but it was completely different from what I expected.  Our team was, "Death By Dirt" and consisted of myself, Heather, her cousin Steffanie, her neighbor Jan, and Sandy Rauhala.  It was in Midway which is absolutely beautiful by the way.  We ran in the 2:00 heat and right off the bat there were 2 deep pools of thick thick mud.  I got my shoes completely stuck and had to dig around in the mud for them with people climbing over me.  After that there were hay bales to climb over, walls to scale, pools of water, trees to climb over, pipes to climb under and in, monkey bars, and at the very end there was a gigantic slide.  The race was a 10k took us just under 2 hours to complete, which with all the obstacles and people wasn't too bad.  We had a really good time, but I have been sore for 2 days now.  It made me realize that I need to work even harder to get my body in shape and I have started drinking a ton more water.  I don't know if I will ever do that particular race again, but it was a good experience (except for the pressure washing at the end, that just hurt!).