MAN VS. MUD!!!

last saturday we did the man vs. mud 5K. we signed up months ago, and were really excited. we picked the team name "wasted potential"..... yeah, we think highly of ourselves! i wanted to try to get in the habit of running this summer because 1) i probably haven't been this out of shape ever, and 2) i thought it would be more fun if i wasn't dying the whole time. that never happened (surprise, surprise) but i thought it cant be that bad..... wrong-o!!! i thought i might die a few times along the way. and it didn't help that you had about 50 lbs. of mud caked to each shoe, and were dripping wet. yeah, if we do that again i will make sure to be more prepared for it! but it was super fun, and different than i expected. the mud was a lot more watered down than i thought it would be. which looking back i guess is a good thing cuz that meant less weight for my out of shape butt to lug around. :) there were TONS of people there which kinda sucked because everytime we got to the next obstacle we had to wait in line for a few minutes cuz they were really slow going. i was glad for the chance to catch my breath, but it made it that much harder to get going again. i'll use that as my excuse for why i had a hard time :) with that many people there that had to pay for registration, they must have made lots of money! hope it went to a good cause!!!!

the whole group waiting to start

Ashlee, Mike, and Me clean before we started

The very beginning of the race was a huge slip n' slide.

Me and Ash considered backing out right there cuz it was kinda

cold, and looked pretty dang steep!!

us after the big mud trench where someone lost a

wedding ring.... sad!

after we were done. we were FREEZING!!

i know it doesn't look like we are that muddy, but it sure felt

like it! my hair was crusty, my contacts wiggin out.

that last slide was a doozy :)

Trish, Aaron, Megan, Me, and Mike by the sign on the way out