I signed up to run with Randy, but his wrist is in a cast.
There were two sessions. One in the morning and another in the afternoon. Both went in waves.
The times for the morning session were much faster than the afternoon. Maybe because it warmed up in the afternoon or the mud got muckier or there weren't as many volunteers to guide us. I think the main factor is because beer hadn't been served yet.
I don't know how I won the afternoon session, but maybe it's due to my strategic eating.
Pre race dinner: All you can eat Korean BBQ (I started being vegetarian a month or so ago, but I'm a lousy vegetarian)
Breakfast: Two Egg McMuffins without the ham.
Lunch: Longboard ale, falafel sandwich, fries smothered in spicy feta and loukoumades slathered with nutella.
We started off with a waist deep mud pit. At least waist deep for me. Probably knee deep for a normal person. Then it was up a hill.
The obstacles ranged from mud pits to low mud crawls to low walls and low ramps. Nothing too creative or difficult.
Two kids passed me on the first hill, and we yo-yoed between 1st, 2nd and 3rd throughout the race. They passed me for all the straight running, but I was able to catch up with them on the obstacles. They actually beat me by 15 seconds or so, but they were in the team category.
If you factor in the morning, then I got 1st in my AG out of 93 and 38th Overall out of 1638. However, let's not factor in the morning times and let me live in glory. Mornings are for sissies anyway. | 