THE BASTINGS BUZZ: I Survived the Warrior Dash!!

This is one of the craziest things I have done recently. Here we are before the Warrior Dash:

And here is the after shot:

Do I have you curious??

Let me break it down for you:

Running 3.23 miles......I have been consistently running 3-5 miles the last few months so didn't think this would be a big deal. But what I wasn't expecting was that 2/3 of that distance was running on a rocky uneven hiking trail that was uphill!!! During the run there are obstacles that you encounter:

Barricade Breakdown--hurdle over the barricades and crawl under the barbed wire
Road Rage--hopscoth your way through a series of tires on the ground then up onto the back of a rusted wrecked car to the roof of the car and then the front and back back down to the ground......all of this 3 times (this was actually pretty fun)
Rubber Ricochet--ram your way through a rubber jungle of tires
Chaotic Crossover--crawl accross the tangled nets (this obstacle was my least favorite because the nets were horizontal to the ground and it was awkward to crawl across)
Deadweight Drifter--trudge through the waist-deep (dirty) water and over the logs (it was actually more like chest-deep water on me....this obstacle was probably my favorite)
Cargo Climb--manuever over the cargo nets (these vertical nets where about 1 and 1/2 stories high....they weren't too bad except climbing over at the top from one side to the other was SCARY)
Deadmans Drop--climb to the top and over the unhandy hurdle
Giant Cliffhanger--make the trek to the top of the massive slope (I was a little nervous about having the upper body strength to make it over some of these climbs but was able to manage them okay)
Muddy Mayhem--scramble beneath barbed wire in the MUD as your near the finish (we were literally crawling on our tummies through the mud and water)
Warrior Roast--leap over the warrior fires (that's right....REAL FIRE!! I made sure to jump extra high)

Talk about DIRTY.....if you didn't notice before, Craig's shirt was white before the race. It was lots of fun being able to do this together. Craig crossed the finish line with a time of 35:03 which is awesome!! He came it ranked as #500 out of the 7587 people that participated that day. When I crossed the finish line the first thing he said to me was "That was the funnest thing I have ever done!!" My time wasn't nearly as impressive (49:10) but I was just happy to finish and say that I did it.