Rugged Maniac.

My friend, Joanna, asked me to do this fun race with her about a month ago.  She asked just a few days before it was happening, and I didn’t feel especially in shape for it, so I told her to try to find someone else.  She tried, but no one else could, so I went with her, and I am SO GLAD I did!  I loved it!  We had such a great time!

Before—all clean.

It was a 5K with 25 obstacles. 

First obstacle—mud pit.

Then we did a whole bunch of other obstacles that Brian didn’t get pictures of because he wasn’t near us during them.  Some I remember: climbing up tall ladder walls, jumping over fire, walking across a beam over water (mentally, this was the hardest one for me), climbing up and then down tall bleachers with 25 lb bags around our neck, jumping over wide and deep pits (lots of them all in a row), crawling through underground tunnels that weren’t very big around, but pretty long, and very dark, and some others that I can’t remember now.

You can’t tell what’s going on here, but we are crawling down a rough/gravel/cement hill on our stomachs because there is barbed wire right above us.

More tunnels—they were pretty slippery on the way up.

 

This was probably the most challenging physically for us (and for everyone).  For people with amazing upper-body strength, it would be easier.

Once we got over it, we realized we had to do another one just like it…

This one challenged my upper body strength, but I did it!

This one would have been pretty easy had it not been so slippery.

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This girl just needs an empty beer can.

Our cheerleaders!  Brian was a good sport to push these girls around while we did the race.  It was so fun for me to able see them at so many of the different obstacles.  Joanna and I are trying to convince our husbands to do it with us next year.  It was so much fun!