Mudslinger Fun Run!! 9/8/2012

Well, it's official!! I completed my first 5K!!! I did NOT run the entire thing, but I think I did pretty well, and over all I think I ran about half of it!! I might have ran more, but when you are running with others, you tend to pace yourself with them....Anyway. I didn't take my camera with me to the actual run, but it made it to the parking area so I could take before and after pictures. I will be stalking the Mudslingers FB page though to see if I made it on the sites pictures and will definitely be saving them for myself!! So, I got up early, since we were in the first group to run - at 8:30 am. It wouldn't have been bad if we would have still been in our un-Godly heat wave, but a cold front decided to blow through the night before, and so it was in the upper 60's when we arrived, and being the first ones to run through the course - the water was FREEZING!!!

Here is my "on the way to the run" picture:

 

And here is the "I'm here, and ready to go" picture:

BTW - my shirt was a SMALL!!!! You have no idea how excited I was that I could FIT into a SMALL! :)

Anyway, so when we ran, it started off pretty easy - until we got to the first mud pit and decided that we were going to run AROUND it instead of through it. Apparently they had someone there to watch and if anyone did that - they would be sprayed by a fire hose. Needless to say...it was very cold, and wet!

Next we came to a series of 3 "walls" that we had to climb over. I made it over all 3, and only had a brief moment of fear on the last wall that was about a foot and a half taller than the other walls...I'm a little scared of heights, especially when the wall I am scaling resembles an over-sized pallet! Next we came to "Balance or Bust" where we had to balance on (an already muddy and slippery) log that stretched across a muddy water pit. I ALMOST made it across without falling. Almost.

One of my favorite parts of the run, was the water slide. It was like a giant slip 'n slide going down a hill, ending in a big mud pit! This was followed by non-muddy obstables, and then one last VERY muddy obstacle before the finish. How muddy was the last obstacle?! See below:

I honestly think my cousin, and running partner, Jamie, CHEATED, and went through that last obstacle in my wake...she obviously was NOT as muddy as I was!! :)

All in all I had a blast, and can't wait to find more 5K's and fun runs to do in the future!! Next time, I am going to try to finish a little fast, and way dirtier...Aside from the grossness of feeling mud in places that it shouldn't be. I felt like the muddier I was at the end, the more fun I had!! :) Here's one more for the road::