Dirty Dash #2

Once again it was Dirty Dash time... This time it was only a 5k and so much easier! Yesterday was the first decent Saturday we have had in a long time. It was so so nice and worked out perfectly. Our team name was The Disco Ninja's (outfits don't really work but who cares?). Here are a couple before and after pictures:

(BJ, Nate, Nat, Heather, Me, & Maegan)

Definitely no lack of mud... there were so many people there and the later on in the day it was the more muddier it got. We went at 2:00 so it was pretty muddy.

I feel like I got a lot more beat up this time than I did before. Below is a picture of my knee, my arms and other knee look just about the same.

These are all the pictures I got on my camera so I am hoping to get more from the others and I will post those.

So fun! Can't wait to do it again.

Ready, Set, Go...

First things first...

Sweetest girl EVER!!

I love love love this chick!

Wouldn't you??

My favorite Temple is closing :(. I spent a day there the week after it closed...I am going to miss this place. Good thing there is so many more around us!

Ogden Marathon!!

Last minute I decided to run the 5k in the Ogden Marathon (my mom & sister ran the half). I got one of my wonderful migraines the week before and pretty much did notraining. Wanna hear the good news? I ran the entire thing! Never been done before...yeah! I ran it in 36:44. Not to bad. I have come to the conclusion that I have a slight addiction to running in races but I absolutely hate training... weird huh? I think I am to the point where I don't really need to train to the 5k so screw it!

Please don't mind the ugliness of me in the pictures below:

My mom got the stomach flu the night before. I thought there was no way she was going to be able to run but she ran the whole thing. She is a mighty mom!

The Dirty Dash #2 - Obstacles

ok. this is probably going to be a major picture overload. i couldn't decide on what ones to use! also...some of the obstacles we don't have pictures of because they were so far away and our fan club wasn't out there to take pictures so i stole some off of Facebook. don't know if i am allowed to but i am pretty i did it... some of the teams took disposable camera's around with them and took pictures. such a good idea. i could've gotten a picture of Jaisha after she fell in the stream...hehe. so any picture without a bunch of pink of girls is not mine! here we go...

starting line:

we look good, don't we? the worker guy is so checking us out =)


Obstacle #1: Big Pig Climb:
we had to run up this massive hill of mud

this was the thickness of the mud:

this hill doesn't look hard but it was. it was slippery and there were so many people around. we were holding hands with each other to get up it. plus you start out muddy and starting out with the first mile all up hill is draining. it took me forever to catch my breath.


Obstacle #2: Hogbails:
i think there were about 6 or 7 of these and after awhile it got tiring. me and Kate did a little James Bond towards the end and rolled over them. we were to tired to jump...


Obstacle #3: Razorback Alley:


Obstacle #4: Pig Pen
These walls were hard...they had guys spraying us with these massive hoses (and i think they were enjoying themselves to much) so you would walk up to the wall and your foot would sink into about 8 inches of mud. makes it a little harder to pull yourself out. but i walked up to those walls and got this major shot of adrenaline and pulled myself right over...it was awesome. (that is me climbing over)


Obstacle #5: Hog Wallow


Obstacle #6: Slop 'n' Slide
this was by far the hardest obstacle...the picture below was just the preview to the big obstacle. there was a muddy swampy area that was probably the size of a soccer field, as deep and as thick below. if you stopped you sunk more and would get stuck. sometimes you would step in a spot and you would sink down to your thighs. it was so hard...especially when you are laughing the whole time!


Obstacle #7: Slide
all of us (Jaisha, Kate, me, Nikki, Heidi..in that order) lined up, ready to charge the slide.

Wee!! (there wasn't much water on the slide so we would run and than jump..not really slide)


Obstacle #8: Hog Wash
this was suppose to be the area where people threw water ballons at us... they were all out by the time we got there so instead we are charging for that muddy pool of a mess.


Obstacle #9: Pig Sty
oh yeah..

this is me getting Jaisha. the whole race she keep throwing mud at everyone and so we all decided to attack her...



here are a couple running shots:
Nikki, Heidi, & Jaisha

well actually walking shot of me & Kate:


after we were all done this group of guys came and gave us a nice muddy hug and started jumping up and down... even though you can't see it all 5 of us are inside of there:


and i just love this picture...we are so dirty!


the next race is a 5k in May... i am so excited. this race rocks!

The Dirty Dash #1

here are the first of probably many more to come of the dash. these are from my camera Nikki's husband used to take pictures. they are mainly before and after's because he video'd the rest. i will get some pictures of the obstacles from the others and post those later!
this was so ridiculoulsy fun! and so ridiculously hard! oh man...i was not prepared for the majority of it to be up a mountain. hills are not my fav. but the obstacles and the mud made it so worth it. it was so fun.
our team name was: 'Hot' Pink Ladies. we were definitely a hit. people would always yell 'go pink ladies' and whistle at us...it was funny. thank you Walmart for the amazing outfits. we did learn our lesson with leg warmers though...they add about 10 pounds to each leg after you hav been trugging through the mud.
here are some pics before we started to get filthy:



i couldn't resist not putting cutting out the guy with the tight jean shorts on in the background...i think it makes the picture better:

here is us trugging up the hill...we had probably the .2 miles left so this is us with 6 miles behind us... wonder what got us so cover in mud? stay tuned for future posts =):

this is us walking down the hill to the grand finale obstacle...which got us covered in mud.. we look so B.A. in this picture...that is because we are:

final filthy finish for sure: (like the mud that is covering my teeth??)

i love all these girls...we had so much fun!

dirty dash

me and 4 of my friends just signed upt to participate in The Dirty Dash on the 25th... haha so excited. if you haven't heard of the dash it is 10k run that involves many obstacles which involve mud...and lots of it! i am so stoked!!! i have a lot of running to do beforehand... 10k is going to kill me..but i can do it. so can you girls if you are reading this! check out the website...you will want to do it too after looking at that.