HOLY COW! What a weekend. But I DID IT!!! So here is the tale of our Warrior Dash.
I was started getting that I shouldn't do this feeling when we got there. Tons of butterflies and what was I thinking thoughts start racing thru my brain. I haven't trained for this, what if I can't complete an obstacle, what if, what if, what if...... You get the idea. So we get there and the place is a mad house. Tons of people live DJ, great atmosphere. So we get our packets and we still have and hour to wait so we find out we can really go w/ the next wave of people if we want so in line we go. It was pretty slow at first because of the massive quantities of people. Then we hit it the first of many STEEP hills. I mean they were steeper than our hike hill in cannon beach. I start to panic a little and we have to start walking almost right away cause I can't jog up hill. Then one of so many falls we stopped counting happened. I fall and can't hardly get up because of the slippery mud on the hill. Here is a pic of my BFF pulling me along, not sure I could have done this w/o her.
See in the picture we are laughing. We laughed ALLOT!!! After a set of 3 up and down hills we finally reach our first obstacle and it is the water one. And to my pleasure we have to wait in line. People along the way were calling it the Warrior Wait because before each & ever obstacle you had a5-15 min wait before you could do it. THANK GOD!! I firmly believe that it was this wait that helped be me able to complete this w/o passing out. I was able to catch my breath & we were always surrounded by people. In this pic my DH & I are still pretty clean except for my leg that was covered from my falls.
As you can see I am a bit red in the face. I was dying already & only at obstacle one. Here is one of me geting into the water after the floating pontoon.
I was really not looking forward to getting in that water. It was over my head & pure mud. LOL!! It went right over my head & up my nose. The next obstacles consisted of mud mounds, mud slide, run climbing pyramids and walls, OH THE WALLS. This wall was tall it had 2x2's nailed to it for a spot to put your foot and it was very difficult for me to get up. The rope was caked in mud and it was slipping out of my hands constantly. I was leaning against the wall & using my leg muscles to push me up on the little 2x2's and I reached the top. here is a picture that our friend too from the bottom looking up.
Well in the attempt to get down my foot slipped & my hands slipped & I fell. ALL THE WAY DOWN. Didn't land on my feet either. My feet slipped when they hit the ground and I flew out and flat on my stomach I landed. We are talking about a 25 foot drop and it hurt. Knocked all the wind out of me I couldn't breath. The EMT that was on hand had to come over and see me. Once I started breathing again he helped me to pace my breathing and calm down. My BFF & her DH were already down at the bottom but my poor DH was at the top watching the whole thing happen. He thought for sure I broke something. Praise the Lord I fell in the only place no boards were and was pretty much unharmed. The obstacle right after this one was another wall.
Here I am at the top wondering how in the heck are we going to get down. I said I think I am going to skip this one. BFF said she would if she just fell like I did. DH said No Shame in that babe. But I knew if I skipped it I would regret it and feel like I didn't truly finish. So I did it w/ great help from DH & BFF's DH but I did it! This pic was taken right after we were done w/ the walls!
After this we only had a couple more to go. And we had some more hills. Well after all the wind was knocked out of me the last hill triggered a full blown asthma attack. We were able to calm it down pretty quick but still no fun. So had to take a moment and calm down and slow my breathing down. We didn't jog much but there were so many lines at each obstacle that it took us quite a while to finish. Again I am so thankful for those lines and the crowds preventing us from really being able to run. Cause I really couldn't even if I had wanted to.
I Didn't get pics of us jumping over the fire or anything unfortunately but here are some more of our smiling faces. :-)
And of course our before and after..
After we were done we went to get our free beer, except me I can't stand beer, and some lady stopped me and said I saw you at the wall & you rocked it! I said you mean the one I fell down and she said but you got up it. So she had seen me on the other side of the steep wall I first fell but then climbed again and got to the top she didn't see me go down. So I told her thank you but I fell the whole way down. And she said but your walking and YOU DID IT! It made me feel amazing that some stranger stopped to tell me that I should be proud of me.
So fall, asthma attack and all would I do it again??????????????????????? HECK YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a blast. We had so much fun. HOWEVER! I do NOT recommend doing this w/o training first like I did. I wished several times through out the day that I had trained cause I couldn't jog I had no upper body strength when I needed it. It took us way longer than it should have. So if you want to try it I say GO FOR IT. But do the couch to 5K training and do weight training as well. I am the heaviest weight of my life & in the worst shape ever but I finished it. Now my legs are beat up and scabbed up. I am so sore tonight I am not sure how I am going to get up & to work tomorrow. (I guess since it is now after midnight that would be today not tomorrow) But again I finished w/o any short cuts. I did it!
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