So yesterday, I finally did it. For the last 6 months I have been looking forward to it....The Dirty Girl Mud Run 5k. I was excited and nervous. If you know me well enough you know I have been on a journey to get back to being healthy, happy, and confident. It's been a long journey that still continues everyday but this was my challenge. I did a 5k in May but didn't "race" it, it was more of a have fun and do it with friends. Yesterday was focused on challenging myself. For those who don't know a 5k is the equilvant to 3.2 miles. For the mud race we had to go through 12 obstacles throughout the course. I was kind of nervous, mainly because I had never done anything like it before and also because I don't enjoy heights much.
The course consist of running, jumping, climbing, and crawling. you climbed ropes and ladders, crawled through mud, jumped into pits of water and mud, slid down slides, and worked your way through a mini rope maze climbing over and under and in between. It was soo much fun. A lot of people did it with teams, I went solo but many people cheered em on and vice versa throughout the race. We gave each other advice on how to get through the obstacle or just helped each other get over fears (mine was the tall net wall you had to climb- see pic below- I am not a fan of heights). This race was everything I pictured and more. I am already looking up other 5k mud races to do in the future and signing up for the Dirty Girl Mud Run 5k for next year. It felt great to challenge myself and see that I could do it. Future goal, perhaps eventually try the Tough Mudder (which is a 10-12 mile mud race- although I would need to work my endurance up to that amount of mileage currently I can only do about 5 miles without feeling like I could die).
Here are some pictures from the race that my husband took:
that's me running (no I am not that far ahead of people I was more middle of the pack there were people quite a bit ahead of me and a bit behind me)
that's me going down the slide lol i was nervous the water below wasn't very deep i didn't want to hurt my already injured ankle more.
that's me at the top of the rope net ringing the bell. The girls to either side of me were kind enough to cheer me on as I started to get nervous swinging over to the other side of the netting.
the last of 4 different mud pits, husband told me i should have dived in but I ran like everyone else. There were two you crawleed through, he was disappointed I wasn't muddier I explained as you run some of the mud flies off.
The end all done and feeling proud
God Bless 
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