Showing posts with label mud run. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mud run. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mudbug Run 2013

As I mentioned in the Sukkot post, we ran the Mudbug Run again this year. However, it was a very last-minute decision and so we didn't do any preparing for it. (not that I did any last year, but Rebecca had at least done some running ahead of time)

On the walk to the race, there were a few firetrucks and rescue vehicles just in case of a mishap on the course (yes, there was fire to jump over) and the boys, of course were very excited. The firefighters were so nice and immediately offered to let them climb up into the driver's seat. Ezra passed, but Gabe was all about it.

"There's a lot of buttons."

Grandma and the kids. Grandma and Grandpa volunteered to watch the kids at Hagan-Stone's awesome playground while we ran our race.

Rebecca and I before our start. Nice, clean, and in my case, fluffy.

Here's what we had to look forward to.

About 3/4 of the way through, the course ran right by the playground so we stopped and got a picture. Not too dirty, mostly from the waist down. Little did we know what the last 1/4 had for us.

Some serious mud. We literally crawled through a 100-yard long trench on our bellies. My beard was a bit heavier after that one.

If you've never done a mud run, it's a ton of fun and you don't have to be in shape for it. Well, this one at least. I'll be putting out the notice next year for anyone who wants to try one. I'd love it if we could put together a good group of folks. Let me know if you're interested and I'll keep you in the loop.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Mudbug 2010

Rebecca and I embarked on our first mud run on Saturday with the 2nd Annual Mudbug Run. It's a 3.1 mile (5k), 18-obstacle course that was such a blast to run. We couldn't have had better weather, either. Not too hot and not too cold, though the pit filled with ice water certainly didn't help anything... and neither did the mud pits, slogs through ponds, climbing over 5' fences, giant hay bales and jumping over fires. However, it was enough fun that we are definitely hooked and going to do this again. It was never our intention to try to win any awards, we just went to have fun and we did.

Sadly, most of the course is through the woods, so we don't have any pictures  of that but our friend Matt grabbed our camera and snapped a few shots as we came in to the last couple of obstacles.
Through the ice water bath. Yeah. It was cold.
Hopping from one pit of muddy water to another. This and the ice bath managed to wash of most of the mud, which was kinda nice. 
The Big @$s wall was the last obstacle and yes, it was a rather big wall. Unfortunately, we had to wait about 5 minutes in line for it, but that was the only one all day and we didn't care about our times.

What a blast! I couldn't have had a better partner for it. :)