Mud, Cold, Pain, Fun!

In the beginning of the month I raced the Malibu Spartan Race with my friend Leahna.  Yes, I paid to get wet, muddy, cold and bruised!  It is a race where you have 20+ obstacles (swims, wall climbs, carrying weight bags through an obstacle course, javelin throw, barbwire, etc)  to cover and conquer.  If you cannot complete an obstacle you have to drop and do 30 burpees!  This course is normally difficult but with 4 days of rains before the event  the course was VERY hard and extremely muddy.  There were some obstacles like the monkey bars and the traversing wall that I don't know how anyone completed with muddy drenched hands- you could not grip anything!  And the burpees in the mud were not very fun.  It took 1.5 hours to complete the course and without the added mud from days of rain it should have taken me under an hour but you could barely run in the race areas due to the suction cup mud!  But like I said I did have fun as races like these make you feel like a kid in a playground - a muddy, rainy playground!  

Pre race - see not muddy yet!

Here was the dreaded barbwire - yes we are smiling, but we did crawl and roll uphill under barbwire for close to 30 minutes!  I had many hip bruises and arm scratches from this obstacle. 
 
The gladiator obstacle where they would try to hit you 

 

Mid race - yep, just a tad dirty!
 (we had a volunteer take our pic and text it to us!)   

The fire leap towards the finish line - looks like my butt is catching fire!
 
We made it!

 
The WORST part - at the end of a FREEZING cold pond swim - there were 2 of these I could have been fine without completing!  

 
Almost there!

 
We did it!!!

 
I AM SPARTAN GIRL! GRRR!!