Mud Crusade 2012

This morning I ran, jumped, crawled, and dragged myself through a mud obstacle course 5k known as the MUD CRUSADE!

I somehow convinced Mirza to do it with me, and a few people from our CrossFit box.
Photos courtesy of my box's Facebook page...

 We were expecting harsh thunderstorms, but lucked out and it was just a beautiful, overcast morning...

Here we are at the start of the race...

This was Mirza's first race of any kind, and I have to say that he did excellent. If I hadn't asked him to wait for me a few times, he would have finished way, way ahead of me!

We were in the first wave, which I am thankful for since that meant we would be the first ones in the mud! Although, I have to say, this mud was more like clay than anything else...

I am in the back coming down the hill...

We ran over hills, through muddy water...

We scaled walls, crawled under ground through dark, wet trenches, and clung to nets...

We even crossed monkey bars over a muddy pit!

And managed to take a few goofy pics along the way...

Exhibit A.

The BEST part of the race was this slide...

Mirza and I managed to catch up with each and went down the slide together. I'm really hoping the professional photographer got a photo because it was insane. Halfway down, I ended up turning and going down backwards. As soon as we hit the water, it was like a tidal wave of muddy water straight to the face!!!

There we are getting up afterwards! I was screaming with muddy water coming out of my nose.

At the end, we climbed hill after hill, over and under walls, and under nets, and eventually jumping over two small fire pits!

The end was a mud pit of water covered with barbed wire, forcing you to crawl through the mud..

FINISH!

I had so much fun! Of all the races I've done, this was by far the best...

 Mirza lost both of the soles to his shoes! The other one is somewhere out on the course...

I would most definitely do another one!