37. Participate in a mud run

June 5, 2011

Camp Pendleton

4:00AM

This is when David and my alarms went off to get up and begin getting ready to drive to Camp Pendelton.

4:30AM

David arrives at my house and we take off to the mud run.

6:00AMish

We have parked and arrived at Camp Pendleton and the nerves kick in.

Shortly after, we catch a shuttle and move over to the site where all of the festivities are being held for the runners.  We grabbed our t-shirts, breakfast for champions, donuts, and laid out our beach towels to relax before the race.

8:30AM
David and I duct taped our shoes to our ankles, checked in our bag, and moved over to the race start line.

9:00AM

The announcer starts getting us pumped up and we're off!

10:30AM

We have gone through two river crossings, a lake crossing, two 5 foot walls, a tunnel, a mud crawl, a mud climb, a mud lake crossing, and 6.2 miles and we finished the race!!! It was LONG and very difficult, but it was well worth it!

We had a blast! And although it was difficult, we will be doing it again next year - and creating a team :)

*We didn't train for this race at all.  We actually forgot about it until about a week before it was taking place and finished with a decent time.  It is possible! Join us next year!