OC Mud Run

This past Saturday we ran in the OC Mud Run! It is a 5K plus obstacle course with a little mud mixed in!

We teamed up with the Deadly Thompsons and become the Purple Cobras- Nobody makes me bleed my own blood, Nobody!

Here is our team warming up...

Me & Kyra doing the "Purple Cobra" (my nose looks like it's GINORMUS)

Here is where the day takes a deadly spin....(we were getting our shoes wrapped up in duct tape)


So this is what happened....got all duct taped up and headed to the start line...we saw a bunch of people that started running ahead of us and apparently the race had already started! So we start sprinting to catch up with everyone...and then we hit the 1st obstacle....4 thousand people in front of us all waiting to get over the 1st one (next year I'm hoping they do interval starts to help ease the pileup)...so after the 1st mud pit I get rocks and mud in my shoes and my feet immediately start bleeding! I also had so much mud in my shoe that the duct tape was super duper tight around my foot and cutting off all circulation!! Crazy right?
So I keep going cause I don't want to look like a pansy (even though I really am). About a mile into it I can't run anymore and have to get my shoes of ASAP, Matt and Rob basically rip my shoes off my feet so I can just run barefoot, and Kyra did the same- she was in pain as well but is much tougher than I am!! So we run barefoot the rest of the race- got piggyback rides over the gravel parts and then we start wading through the most disgusting stagnant water ever!
Well to make the longest story ever a little shorter...we survived! We had a blast and now know all the things NOT to do to prepare for the race!




So you'll notice in this pic I am unusally close to Matt...sorry Kyra, well actually sorry Matt, awkward!!


I apologize for the following pics...but they had to be posted! They actually don't look as bad as they feel
I had a nasty toe infection for a couple days, but has since gone. My heels are just all screwed up and they literally THROB all the time!!




I'm bummed we didn't get a picture of everyone who went....we had us, the Thompsons, the Andres teamed up with the Morans, the Fergusons teamed up with the Kaass, and the Nelsons teamed up with the Nays for the nooner race!!

We even got to eat lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant Mi Casa with the Thompsons and the Fergusons.....Matt was acting like a 12 year old girl the whole time and Kyra licked a man's shadow- pure entertainment!