The Dirty Dash

For all my friends and family who I tried to recruit to do this run with me...you guys missed out! This was such a fun race. My friends Shelly and Becky and I ran the Dirty Dash. It was a 10k mud run with muddy obstacles. We ran through several inches and sometimes several feet of mud throughout the race. We had supportive fans, and even got to run with our kids in the "Piglet Plunge" (a one mile run for kids aged 2-12). Jacob had a blast! To say that I had a blast would be an understatement. We had to jump over hay bales, walk across muddy planks, crawl through muddy tunnels, walk through a pond, climb over a big rope ladder, climb over muddy walls, and go through an enormous mud pit. There are probably some other things I am forgetting, but, you get the idea. It would have been difficult to take any other pictures without a water proof camera, so we only have pictures from before and from the end of the race, but, here they are...

Becky and I pre-race

Our trio

This is the first shot taken mid-race. We were actually extremely muddy previous to this picture being taken, but much of our muckiness washed off in the pond.

Here is the final mud pit

The race is nearly over

Here we are with the kids during their race

That is Jacob and I running up the hill

Our friend Shelly and Jacob's friend Owen

Jacob and I post-run, with daddy

Me in the freezing cold shower area. It looks like everyone around me is naked

We are definitely doing this again next year...any takers, now that you have seen the fun?!