The Dirty Dash!

My most anticipated run of the summer!!
It was sooo fun! ok with that out of the way :)..

I decided to find ateam and so I posted on FB to see if there was interest. I had a team within 90 minutes!! As the months rolled by we lost one due to injuries, then another because she wanted to run with the other. picked up two quickly lost one of those gals two days before the race but luckily I knew someone who had told me she would love to do it so I called many times during the day till I contacted her and she was in!!
so our team consisted of me, JaNae Hutchins, Laura Murdock, Lisa Clayton and Kim Karras. You will recognize Laura and JaNae from priar races and Lisa was actually on our ragnar team jus tin teh other van. Kim is my cousin.
we got up early and Drove out to Laura's house to leave by 7:30am. as soon as everyone was there we were on our way to Soldier Hollow, It was about an hour drive. as we pulled up to the resort we saw the HUGE water slide! well we got there and walked around for a bit then it was our time to line up to run! Our wave started at 9:40am, it was the first team Wave the other two before us were single runners.
So we started up a muddy hill to a ginormous sprinkler. then we trail ran to another water atraction that was a fire house thru a fan and it was sooo cold!. run run!! to the hay bales, I think there were 5-6 different ones to jump/climb over. more trail runs to some tubes to crawl thru. run run to some WALLS! to climb over!! there were 4-5 and it was MUDDY there too! I slipped and fell and then proceded to laugh soo hard I was about crying!!then we ran down a big hill and thru some tires. and run run to the lake (Deer Creek) and we saw there were two paths so we decided to take the muddy way and it was fabulously stinky!! haha! run run thru the trails to another big hill up to the HUGE waterslide we saw! But I found Don there with the camera! we ran up the hill and down the slide we went!! into a big muddy pit we slipped and slid thru down to the finish line where there was a big mud pit of water! now before we started they said they wanted everyone crawling thru it so we did as told and crawled thru it! I don't think there was a clean part on my body!!
Finish line we got cameras at us at all angles so I have plenty of pictures that I am thinking will be best put in a slide show so I will get it up in the next few days.

So on eof the exciting parts of this run was that they had a piglet plunge for kids! well my kids were soo excited!! We had visited the DI thrift store and found some matching soccer uniforms for Jacob and Cora, and my nephews Tommy and Adam. Owen decided the next day he did want to do it but I never made it back to find another shirt. I heard there I was supposed to run with them so I did.

Now that it is over I have to say it was soo fun. I have not done hills for a long time so it was very tiring. I think this was truely the hardest run I have done but also the funnest. I don't think I have been this sore this quickly either! Plus I have scraped up knees and scrape and bump on my butt and scrapes down my thigh :) gotta love the battle wounds!!

some days I just can't

I have really been struggling this week with running. I'm not sure why. I planned to get up and do 8-10 this morning and when I couldn't sleep I decided I would do it in the evening and it never happened. after I ran teh half I was so ready to get back out there and I did but now ugh I am really trying to but just not feeling it. It is frustrating. I just need to keep thinking about the dirty dash next week. I gotta run at least one 6 miles this week cuz I want to be ready for next week!
On a happy note Don has started to cycle which is exciting and maybe I will join him. :)