The Warrior Dash is an adventure 5k that is described as the 'craziest frickin day of your life'. As you run the 5k you have 12 obstacles to complete such as climbing over walls, balance beams, trekking through streams, jumping fire, and crawling through mud. All in all...a crazy and AWESOME race. HOWEVER, there was a 13th obstacle this year...100+ degree heat index. Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of running on my part. Ian and I trained to run this race, but decided to save our health and walk instead. We completed it and felt good afterwards. Hot...sweaty...drained...and a little sun burned, but we weren't among the 90 people taken to the hospital for heat related conditions. We ran at 1:00 pm...the stopped letting people run by the time we finished a little after 2:00...yeah...it was that hot.
All that being said, I'm still so proud that Ian and I did that race. Sure our time is nothing to brag about, but it was a goal Ian and I set. We trained for it together and completed the race together. It was pretty cool to do that with him. The most amazing thing is we're both talking about what we're going to do differently next year. First thing: earlier in the summer. Second thing: further north. We may even go commando if that's an option for next year. (And if we did the go commando race, Ian would be so grateful that I wouldn't be singing this song up until race day)
We did have a great time. We drove down with some friends from derby and met up with some other ORG gals when we got there. It was definitely an encouragement to have some friendly faces along the way. ORG REPRESENT!
What a great picture! It is cool you put in the training time together. They always say it is good to find things you both can do together. Ouch - what a battle wound. I am glad you took a slower pace with that kind of heat. SOOO glad they let you go and that you hadn't driven all the way there to be kept from doing it.
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