Got Mud?

Saturday morning Keri faced her first mud run, The Survival Race!  Truly this is just an excuse for mature, civilized adults to revert back to those good old mud pie days. 

Before: Kim, Keri, and Kris

Keri was with a group of seven from her church; she being the oldest by a few years.  It just sounded too fun to pass up and a good reason to run a full load of laundry.

She ran the whole 5K (3.1 miles) and completed all the obstacles. Some of which were running in a river, crawling on hands and knees in the mud under a structure, climbing a rope wall, climbing a muddy hillside, maneuvering through webs of ropes, jumping over fire, and so forth. They ran through fields of wildflowers between many of the obstacles. They stopped to cheer each other on and really had a great time. It was a blast!

After: Keri, Kim, Aleasha, Natasha, Linsey, Kris

 

They had mud caked in their hair and ears.  Later, when preparing to shower at home, Keri found a healthy measure of mud in her belly button. How about that lovely detail! 

Update (3 May 2012): I don't know how many participated in the event but results show I placed 68th out of 206 Women in the age group 35-39 years.  My time was 50 min., 48 sec.